Biki bikes costing Honolulu, audit finds
Honolulu’s 3-1/2-year-old bikeshare program known as Biki has not benefited the city and lacks accountability and transparency, according to an audit released Friday afternoon.
Although the city support for the program might initially have been justified on its merits to provide an environmentally friendly transportation option, the auditor says it “lacked a cost-benefit analysis to truly measure the program’s worth.”
The audit, which was conducted as a result of a City Council resolution approved last year, said Bikeshare Hawaii, the nonprofit that launched the program, receives “a myriad of city exemptions to support its operations that are not formalized and lack transparency.”
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