Pasadena has signed off on a contract with Metro that may bring as many as 400 or more bicycles to the city’s densest streets next summer.

An early plan presented Monday at the City Council meeting indicates Metro wants to put 34 bike share stations in Pasadena’s central district.

The council agreed to chip $850,000 in funds earmarked for transportation projects to cover the first year of operations for the two-year pilot program, but officials pushed for more control over where those stations might go after noticing few ended up in their districts.

“The majority, or the super majority of them, are south of the 210 freeway,” said Councilman John Kennedy, who questioned whether the program would benefit all of the city’s residents.

A map presented to the council showed less than ten stations above the freeway and none in East Pasadena.

Transportation Manager Mike Bagheri said the placement is based on projected ridership and were identified through a study by Metro, but nothing has been finalized yet.

“This is a revenue system,” Bagheri said.

Pasadena is the second city for Metro’s Bike Share program, which launched in Downtown Los Angeles last year. The program saw 50,000 rides in the first three months of operations, according to a staff report. It’s expected advertising at the stations could generate about $120,000 annually for the city.

The move is part of Pasadena’s attempts to become more bicycle and pedestrian friendly, though large portions of a new bicycle network planned by the city won’t come online until after the sharing program begins. That includes a separated cycle track planned for Union Street and additional bike lanes on Orange Grove Boulevard and Cordova Street.

It won’t be cheap to check out a bicycle and that could turn away riders in lower income communities. Riders can pay $20 a month for unlimited trips up to 30 minutes; $40 annually to discount each 30-minute ride to $1.75; or a flat rate of $3.50 for each half hour.

For the flat rate cost, it’ll cost more to rent a bicycle to ride from a Metro Gold Line station to Old Pasadena than it would cost to ride the Metro Gold Line itself.

The city will cover 65 percent of the cost of operations and maintenance, with Metro covering the rest. The city in exchange gets a cut of the revenues and retains the right to sell ads on the bike share stations.