Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Citi Bike Releases Map of Williamsburg and Greenpoint Expansion

By Brad Aaron | Feb 27, 2015 | 2 Comments

Here’s some eye candy for the weekend — a map of Citi Bike’s expansion into northern Brooklyn. This map was submitted to Community Board 1 and obtained by the Brooklyn Paper. There are 53 stations planned for Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Unlike the Citi Bike phase two expansion areas in Manhattan and Queens, which are starting […]

Citi Bike Expansion Plan Gets Going on the Upper West Side [Updated]

By Larissa Zimberoff | Jan 30, 2015 | 10 Comments

A public workshop last night set in motion the planning process for bike-share on the Upper West Side, part of Citi Bike’s phase two expansion that will double the number of stations and reach up to 125th Street by 2017. NYC DOT said the station map for the neighborhood should be finalized sometime this fall […]

Jay Walder on What’s Next for America’s Biggest Bike-Share Company

By Ben Fried | Jan 14, 2015 | 31 Comments

Last fall, former MTA chief Jay Walder took over as CEO of Alta Bicycle Share, part of a restructuring that injected new resources and expertise into a company that had struggled to keep up with the demands of running bike-share systems in half a dozen major American cities. This morning, the company came out with […]

New Name for Alta Bicycle Share: “Motivate”

By Ben Fried | Jan 14, 2015 | 23 Comments

After new management took over in 2014, injecting capital and expertise that’s expected to turn around a sputtering operation, the company formerly known as Alta Bicycle Share has adopted a new name: Motivate. (A verb! Very active transportation-y.) Motivate operates bike-share systems in New York, DC, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle, making it the […]

Jersey City’s New Bike-Share System Will Be Open to Citi Bike Members

By Brad Aaron | Jan 8, 2015 | 8 Comments

Jersey City is preparing to launch a bike-share program this year that will be compatible with Citi Bike, according to an announcement yesterday from Alta Bicycle Share. Jersey City lawmakers awarded Alta the contract to operate the system on Monday. The new system “will have reciprocal membership privileges with New York’s Citi Bike system,” Alta […]

Stringer’s Citi Bike Report Is Woefully Behind the Times

By Ben Fried | Dec 15, 2014 | 14 Comments

Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office took so long to produce an audit of Citi Bike maintenance that major issues flagged in the report no longer appear to be affecting the system. The report dropped Thursday night, and on Friday several media outlets came out with stories following the lead of Stringer’s “scathing” press release, which emphasized Citi […]

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