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Austin's Bikeshare service starts coming back Aug. 11 after a Memorial Day fire prompted...

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Austin's Bikeshare service starts coming back Aug. 11 after a Memorial Day fire prompted CapMetro to pull its fleet of almost 500 bikes.

The estimated value of burned equipment was $159,000.

None of it was insured.

kut.org/transportation… Austin Bikeshare's slow return comes after $159,000 in damages from warehouse fire The fire in a battery charging room happened in May. A final report on the cause of the fire hasn't been released, but CapMetro acknowledges charging equipment wasn't insured.
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I should have wrote Memorial Day *weekend fire. It was on Saturday, May 23.