Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Bike-Share Open Data Standard Clears the Way for Better Trip Planning Apps

By Ben Fried | | 1 Comment
It’s about to get easier to plan trips that include bike-share. Yesterday, the North American Bikeshare Association, a trade group representing transportation agencies and private firms involved in operating bike-share systems, announced that it is adopting an open data standard. NABSA includes Motivate, the company that operates Citi Bike, Divvy, Bay Area Bike Share, and several […]

The Next Brooklyn Bike-Share Expansion Will Be the Thinnest Part of Citi Bike

By Ben Fried | | 42 Comments
DOT unveiled its latest Citi Bike expansion map last week, and the stations look significantly more spread out than stations in the rest of the system. Spread-out stations are a problem for bike-share users because people have to walk farther to make trips, and that costs time. The National Association of City Transportation Officials recommends 28 stations per square mile — and […]

Citi Bike Ridership Begins to Climb Out of Its Slump

By Stephen Miller | | 25 Comments
Summer sales and ridership numbers show Citi Bike, at last, is on the rebound. The bike-share program grew by leaps and bounds as New Yorkers embraced it immediately after the May 2013 launch, but before long, subscribers grew frustrated with unreliable service caused by buggy software and other operational problems. Sales and ridership slumped. In fiscal year 2015, […]

Bike-Share Is Now Online in Jersey City

By Brad Aaron | | 3 Comments
.@CitiBikeJC is ready to roll out! @bikejc pic.twitter.com/An27y7DtKD — Tri-State (@Tri_State) September 21, 2015 Citi Bike Jersey City launched today. The Jersey City system is compatible with its NYC counterpart and has the same price structure. If you sign up for one system, you can use bikes in the other. The Jersey City network launched with 350 bikes and […]
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