SmartBike DC Open for Business

After a bit of a wait, District residents can finally sign up for SmartBike DC memberships online. The city's pilot bicycle sharing program is already being used by a small number of beta testers, and $40 annual subscriptions are now for sale, according to DDOT's Manager for Bicycle, Pedestrian, and Transportation Demand Management Programs, Jim Sebastian.

It takes at least a couple of weeks to process memberships, so if you sign up today, you can be one of the first people to try out the new program.

A limited number of bicycles are already out at seven of the ten SmartBike rack locations. Three racks, however, at Metro Center, McPherson Square, and Judiciary Square, are still not finished, according to Sebastian.

Flickr user erin*carly sent us this capture from the Farragut Square SmartBike rack this morning.

If you sign up, be sure to let us know what your experience is like.