Waffiyyah Murray says she likes to be able to “see the world and city through my bike.” Bike riding is not just healthy, she says. “It’s fun! A lot of people forget how much fun it can be.” Ms. Murray is the manager of the Better Bike Share Partnership. The partnership is a national organization that works with Philadel- phia’s Indego program and other groups to make bike sharing available to more people and neighborhoods. “Our job is to make sure anyone who wants to use bike share is able to use it,” she says. “We make sure bikes are accessible in all neighborhoods so people have access to bikes, are educated on how to ride a bike, and can do it comfortably and safely.” She is especially concerned that people in low-income communities and people of color benefit from bike share programs. “Low- income communities are often left out,” she says. “They don’t have the benefits and pro- grams that a lot of other neighborhoods have.” Philadelphia’s bike share program provides bikes to anyone 14 or older who has an Indego pass. It’s a little like a bike library that checks bikes in and out. Pass-holders can take out a bike for up to an hour at a time or pay a small hourly fee to use it longer. But at $17 a month, the pass is hard for some people to afford. As a result, Ms. Murray says, Indego now offers a pass for just $5 a month to people who use a Pennsylvania ACCESS card to manage their government-issued cash, food, or medical benefits. Since Indego set the lower fee, other bike share systems around the country have adopted the idea. Philadelphia “has been a leader and an inspiration” to others, she says. Part of Ms. Murray’s job is to talk about good ideas like that with other bike share systems across the United States. “People think I spend most of my day on a bike,” she says with a laugh. “I do a lot of interviews, similar to this, with other groups and organizations wanting to know what we do, talking to other cities, bike system operators, and providing advice for them to create bike share systems for everyone to use.” Waffiyyah Murray Giving more people access to bike sharing 18