Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Citi Bike Map Now Shows Over 100 New Stations Coming Soon

By Stephen Miller | Jul 16, 2015 | 33 Comments

New York City’s bike-share expansion is almost here. Citi Bike has added more than 100 new stations to its system map in Brooklyn, Long Island City, and between 59th Street and 86th Street in Manhattan. While it’s difficult to assess station density with much detail from eyeballing the map, you can see that parts of the Upper West Side, […]

DOT Finalizes Weak Bike-Share Station Maps for Manhattan Expansion [Updated]

By Ben Fried | Jul 10, 2015 | 21 Comments

DOT’s bike-share expansion maps for the Upper West Side and Upper East Side are now final, and they’re not any better than the draft maps that showed a thinned-out network of stations for some of the city’s densest neighborhoods. The final maps shift a handful of stations around but don’t add any (here’s the UWS final […]

Motivate and DOT Squabble, Jeopardizing Success of Bike-Share Expansion

By Ben Fried | Jul 1, 2015 | 38 Comments

A dispute between NYC DOT and the company that runs Citi Bike threatens to rob New York City’s bike-share expansion of the very quality that’s made the existing service so useful. The key issue is station density, and whether the stations where Citi Bike expands will be within easy walking distance of each other like in the rest […]

Take a Look at the EZ New Citi Bike Docks

By Stephen Miller | Jun 19, 2015 | 6 Comments

The new Ben Serotta-designed Citi Bikes are hitting the streets — 1,000 are supposed to go into circulation by the end of the month. But wait, there’s more. Citi Bike is also testing out new docking mechanisms. I tried one out at the bike-share station on Eighth Avenue next to Penn Station, where a few docks have […]

Upper West Siders to DOT: Citi Bike Stations Need to Be Closer Together

By Stephen Miller | May 13, 2015 | 53 Comments

Citi Bike is coming to the Upper West Side, but the expansion map DOT revealed last night has big gaps between stations. Like the map for the Upper East Side, the UWS plan calls for fewer stations per square mile than the current Citi Bike service area. Both neighborhoods are among the densest residential areas […]

Here’s Where Citi Bike Stations Will Go on the Upper East Side

By Stephen Miller | May 7, 2015 | 30 Comments

At a meeting hosted by the Manhattan Community Board 8 transportation committee last night, DOT unveiled a map showing 39 planned Citi Bike station locations on the Upper East Side [PDF]. The city said it expects service to be operating as far north as 86th Street by late summer or early fall, with further expansion next year. […]

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