City Council Calls for de Blasio to Fund Bike-Share Expansion and Fair Fares
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The City Council is calling for two major transportation-related changes to Mayor de Blasio's budget: discount subway fares and Citi Bike expansion.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing
An Emerging Bike-Share Success Story in Bed-Stuy
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The growth in bike-share ridership in Bedford-Stuyvesant is outpacing the rest of the city following a multi-year community organizing effort, according to a report released today by the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
New Yorkers Are Riding Citi Bike to Transit
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Citi Bike is helping New Yorkers connect to trains and buses, according to a new report from the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation analyzing trip data from last September.
Citi Bike Resumes Service After a Day and a Half Out of Commission
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New Yorkers looking to get back in a bike-share saddle were out of luck this morning. After Motivate shut the system down at 11 p.m. Wednesday, it was still offline during the a.m. commute today, even though the streets were mostly clear of snow. We asked the company about the protocol for reactivating the system after a winter storm.
34 Council Members Want City Subsidies for Bike-Share Expansion
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A supermajority on the City Council says Mayor de Blasio should funding in his 2018 budget to expand the bike-share system to more neighborhoods.
Seattle Just Canned Its Bike-Share System. What Went Wrong?
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If Seattle is going to give bike-share another try, it will have to learn from this experience. The Pronto system started off small and never scaled up. And that mandatory helmet law really didn't help.