SDOT director Kubly writes op-ed amid bike-share skepticism
May 9, 2016, 3:15 PM | Updated: 4:13 pm

A Car2Go in Seattle. (Atomic Taco, Flickr)
(Atomic Taco, Flickr)
Just a few days after that Seattle Department of Transportation Director Scott Kubly wasn’t a member of the bike-share program he pushed so hard to keep afloat, he praised another sharing program.
Kubly wrote an op-ed for touting the decision to remove the cap on the number of annual car-sharing permits issued in the city. There was previously a cap of 750 vehicular permits for each car-share company operating in Seattle.
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成人X站 Radio’s Tom Tangney wonders if the op-ed was, at least partially, a response to the bike-share criticism. Was he trying to point out that he isn’t a bike-share member but a car-share member?
In his op-ed, Kubly says if he isn’t walking to work, he is driving to work in a car-share vehicle. He’s apparently a “proud car-share guy,” Tom says.
成人X站 Radio’s John Curley is even more skeptical than Tom. After it was discovered that聽Kubly was found to have ties with the bike-share program the City of Seattle eventually purchased, Curley wonders if Kubly has financial connections to a car-share service.
“Does he have inside sources or connections to [car-share] as well?” Curley asked.
Tom argues one of the reasons he was hired at SDOT was all the experience he had with bike-share programs. It’s probably not fair to insinuate that Kubly is doing something questionable.