After the contract was renegotiated, out of the 15 kiosks, only four will be located in residential locations at Grand Boulevard and W. Park Avenue, Magnolia Boulevard and W. Bay Drive, Edwards Boulevard and Walnut Street and Pacific Boulevard and Shore Road.

“All residential areas were practically taken out, so we concentrated on commercial areas only and the boardwalk on the West End and so forth,” Diaz said.

Diaz said that the program was due to start by the end of the month, when the company will roll out between 300 and 400 bicycles. Diaz said the amount of bikes per station varies depending on the location. He said the company didn’t want to add any of its bikes until all of the kiosks were installed in order to avoid confusion among customers.

“We already launched, and the system is up and running in Long Beach,” Diaz said.

Still, residents and city officials have expressed safety concerns over the location of some kiosks and bike lanes.

“There was no mention or a plan to install bike lanes,” Torres said of the original agreement, which he said didn’t include bike lanes until after it was renegotiated. “Of course, if there are 400 bikes on the streets and you don’t have an organized way for people to use the bikes, they can become dangerous.”

Diaz said DecoBike has already installed the lanes, and that the city chose what they considered the safest locations on Ocean View Drive, Grand, Magnolia, Edwards and Riverside boulevards, and the boardwalk.

“There are two types of bike lanes,” Diaz said. “There are dedicated bike lanes and sharrow bike lanes, which you share the road with the cars. It all depends [on] the width of the street — which one do you accommodate if you have cars parked on one side if they open the door? So the city picked what streets they wanted the markings on, and we completely offered to pay and do the markings for them.”

Torres said there have been complaints specific to the Grand Blvd. and W. Park Ave. kiosk location.

“You have a bus turning in that same area, which might pose a danger to those bicyclists coming to either pull the bikes out of there or [drop them off],” he said. “That may not be a safe location.”