Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Strong Safety Record for NYC Bike-Share Should Come as No Surprise

By Charles Komanoff | Nov 5, 2013 | 51 Comments

The Times’ good-news story this morning, “No Riders Killed in First 5 Months of New York City Bike-Share Program,” could almost have been written a year ago. In fact, it was, sort of, in this space. In June 2012, Streetsblog published my piece pooh-poohing predictions of looming traffic carnage. We followed that with a similar […]

TA Poll: Majority of Citi Bike Users Want Protected Car-Free Bike Lanes

By Brad Aaron | Oct 17, 2013 | 5 Comments

In the latest issue of “StreetBeat,” Transportation Alternatives shares the results of the first in a series of online “flash polls” of Citi Bike riders. The polls are intended to gauge how members use the system, and how they’d like to see Citi Bike, and city streets, made better. Over 2,200 people responded to the […]

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The Convergence Between New Technologies and the Decline in Driving

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 1, 2013 | No Comments

According to a spate of recent studies, Millennials — a bigger generation than the Baby Boomers — are driving less than their parents did. But the underlying reasons are a matter of some dispute. Will younger Americans start happily motoring again once the economy is really humming, or is a lasting generational shift underway? The U.S. PIRG and […]

First Time Biking Over the East River Bridges? With the Right Help, It’s Easy

By Stephen Miller | Sep 26, 2013 | 10 Comments

Shawneladee Cole is not what most people would consider an “avid” cyclist. So when e-mails on her Clinton Hill co-op listserv got heated as bike-share stations were installed this spring, Cole paid some attention, but it wasn’t until the blue bikes appeared in May that she thought she might want to give it a shot. […]

Ride Citi Bike? TA Wants to Know What You Think

By Stephen Miller | Sep 19, 2013 | 1 Comment

Transportation Alternatives has launched a series of surveys asking Citi Bike riders what they think of the bike-share program. The aim is to better inform TA’s activism and introduce the advocacy group to bike-share users who may not already be familiar with ways they can help improve cycling in New York. “We don’t want this to […]

After 100 Days, Architects of NYC’s Bike-Share Success Take Stock

By Stephen Miller | Sep 18, 2013 | 18 Comments

By the numbers, Citi Bike has been a huge success, taking weeks to build the substantial ridership that other systems took years to achieve. With the instant popularity have also come growing pains: Ensuring a balanced supply of bikes across the system remains an ever-present challenge, and plans to expand remain just over the horizon, […]

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