Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

NYC Subsidizes Lightly-Used Ferries. Why Not Hugely Popular Bike-Share?

By John Petro | Mar 21, 2014 | 83 Comments

The Wall Street Journal reports that Citi Bike is in the red, needing “tens of millions of dollars” to keep running. The de Blasio administration hopes that private money will be found to rescue Alta Bicycle Share, the company that operates Citi Bike, which is the only large bike-share system in the country not to get public funds. […]

Report: NYC’s Density and Transit Set Citi Bike Apart

By Stephen Miller | Mar 10, 2014 | 5 Comments

Even when adjusted for its size, Citi Bike’s ridership numbers have quickly surpassed comparable systems. While there are many factors shaping Citi Bike’s success, a new report from NYU argues that the program’s connections to transit could be a key to its strikingly high ridership. Last week, graduate students at NYU’s Rudin Center for Transportation […]

Judge Dismisses Brooklyn NIMBY Bike-Share Suit

By Brad Aaron | Mar 7, 2014 | 11 Comments

Bike-share NIMBYs have lost another lawsuit. Owners of 150 Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights claimed that the siting of a bike-share station on the sidewalk outside the building was “arbitrary and capricious,” according to court documents, and that DOT exceeded its authority in doing so. They dumped their garbage on the station for good measure. Judge […]

Council Members Say DOT Needs Funds for Vision Zero, Bike-Share Expansion

By Brad Aaron | Mar 6, 2014 | 1 Comment

City Council members today expressed strong support for Vision Zero, bike-share expansion, and other safe streets initiatives, but it’s not clear how they will be funded. At a transportation committee budget hearing, council members heard from the Taxi and Limousine Commission, the MTA, and DOT. Among other issues, reps from each agency were asked how […]

Study: Bike-Share Has Boosted the Share of Female Riders in Manhattan

By Stephen Miller | Feb 4, 2014 | 1 Comment

Bicycling in Manhattan has long been a male-dominated mode of transportation, but a new study says bike-share is helping improve the gender balance in the borough’s bike lanes. Another change since the blue bikes hit the streets last summer: Manhattan bike riders are far more likely to follow the rules of the road. The Hunter […]

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Why TIME Magazine Got the Bixi Story Wrong

By Ben Fried | Jan 22, 2014 | No Comments

Major media have a habit of blowing bike-share problems out of proportion. Witness the 2009 BBC story that cast theft and vandalism as an existential threat to Velib in Paris. Five years later, Velib is still going strong. The most recent entry in the genre is Christopher Matthews’ misguided story on the Bixi bankruptcy in TIME. Headline: […]

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