Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Montreal Judge Awards Bixi Bike-Share Assets to Montreal Furniture Mogul

By Stephen Miller | Apr 11, 2014 | 2 Comments

The path to a more reliable and efficient Citi Bike got a bit more complicated this afternoon. A bankruptcy court judge in Montreal has rejected a bid from REQX Ventures, formed by real estate giant Related Companies and its Equinox Fitness unit, for the international operations of the Public Bike System Company, also known as Bixi. The judge […]

Using Citi Bike Data to Figure Out Where Cyclists Ride

By Stephen Miller | Apr 7, 2014 | 5 Comments

It’s been a week since Citi Bike released a trove of data on bike-share trips, and the public is already using the information to pick out patterns in ridership and glean new details about the demographics of Citi Bike riders. In addition to identifying the busiest late-night stations to map nightlife hotspots, statistician Ben Wellington at […]

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Chuck Schumer Proposes Making Bike-Share Memberships Tax Deductible

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 2, 2014 | No Comments

If you drive to work, the IRS allows you to pay for parking with pre-tax money. Same goes if you take the train or the bus (though transit commuters can’t claim as much tax-free earnings as car commuters). People who ride their own bikes are also eligible to deduct some associated costs. But if you […]

New Citi Bike Data on Individual Trips Shows How Bike-Share Links to Transit

By Stephen Miller | Mar 31, 2014 | 8 Comments

Today, Citi Bike opened up a treasure trove of data on how people are using the system, giving the public access to details of individual trips, featuring information such as starting point, ending point, trip time, bike identification number, and anonymous information about the bike user, including gender, age, and whether the rider was using […]

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Boston Doctors Now Prescribing Bike-Share Memberships

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 28, 2014 | No Comments

The newest tool for doctors in the fight against obesity? That’s right: Bike-share. This week in Boston, doctors introduced a program called Prescribe-a-Bike, offering low-income residents struggling with obesity an annual Hubway bike sharing membership for the low price of $5. The program is being administered by Boston Medical Center in partnership with the city […]

Should Alta Be Running NYC Bike-Share?

By Ben Fried | Mar 24, 2014 | 44 Comments

With today’s report in the Daily News that Citi Bike operator Alta Bicycle Share is failing to meet several key performance targets, a short run-down of the current state of bike-share operations in New York City is in order. What we’ve learned since Citi Bike launched last May is that bike-share works in NYC. It […]

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