MassBike was awarded grant funding through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s (MassCEC) new Accelerating Clean Transportation for All (ACT4All) Program to conduct a 2-year program to distribute approximately 100 electric bicycles and track their usage amongst select populations in the City of Worcester. We're leading a team including the Worcester Chamber of Commerce, community-based organizations, and the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission (CMRPC) to deploy e-bikes to low-income residents throughout Worcester.
All e-bikes have now been distributed and we are moving forward with ongoing data collection and community engagement efforts in Worcester. As the program continues, this page will be updated with current project information.
Program Update: July 13, 2023
Program Details
The program determined approximately one hundred riders in the Worcester area to receive bicycles, train riders through safe cycling and maintenance courses, and coordinate community events to encourage everyday riding.
Program Timeline
- May 2022 - Program application launch
- Thursday, June 30, 2022 - Applications Due
- July/August 2022 - Program participants selected
- August-November 2022 - Round 1: E-Bikes distributed to participants
- Spring 2023 - Round 2: E-Bikes distributed to participants
- Summer/Fall 2023 - Data collection & community engagement
Program Application
The Worcester E-Bike Program application process is now closed. Thank you very much to those who sent in applications. Due to the high number of applications, a lottery system was put in place to choose the participants and all e-bikes have been distributed as of July 2023. Selection Criteria for Worcester E-Bike Program
Program Data
Now that we have finished deployments and locked in our data collection process, the MassBike team will be working to provide more regular program updates. After we close out data collection for each month, we’ll be adding it to this publicly accessible spreadsheet which you can view here: MassBike Worcester E-Bike Program Public Data
Blogs
Want to learn more? Email Alex at [email protected] for more information.
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Worcester E-Bike Program Update - December 2022
Worcester E-Bike Program Participant Video
Press Mentions
- "Worcester E-Bike Users Have Traveled Halfway Around Earth" (Worcester Patch - 1/24/23)
- "New Worcester E-Bike Users Take Group Tour Of City" (Worcester Patch - 08/22/2022)
- "Politics and the City: E-Bikes 'take the lane' on Worcester Streets in Pilot Project" (Worcester Telegram & Gazette - 08/21/2022)
- “Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition starting Worcester e-bike program” (Spectrum News1 - 06/10/2022)
- "MassBike giving away 100 free electric bikes to Worcester residents, workers; Here's how you can get one" (MassLive - 05/26/2022)
- "Green Program Offering Free E-Bikes To Worcester Residents" (thisweekinworcester.com - 05/24/2022)
- “Worcester MassBike Program Provides Free E-Bikes to Low Income Residents” (WBZ NewsRadio 1030 - 04/05/2022
- “How Massachusetts is getting electric vehicles, e-bikes to low-income populations” (Worcester Telegram & Gazette - 03/31/2022)
- "Mass. Clean Energy Center Awards $3 Million to New E-Bike Subsidy Programs" (Streetsblog MASS - 03/09/2022)
- "E-Bikes For Worcester Residents: Grant Funds Test Program" (Patch - 03/08/2022)