Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Anthony Weiner, Ready to Erase Bike Lanes, Won’t Be Cowed by “Jihadists”

By Stephen Miller | Aug 13, 2013 | 42 Comments

It may be news to the national audience of BuzzFeed, but Anthony Weiner once said he would hold ribbon cuttings on his first day in Gracie Mansion to rip out the city’s bike lanes. He now insists the expletive-laced promise was a joke, but he’s firm in his opinion that at least two of the […]

Gianaris: Astoria Added to Bike-Share Expansion Plans

By Stephen Miller | Aug 8, 2013 | 3 Comments

State Senator Michael Gianaris announced today that DOT has added Astoria to the map for Citi Bike expansion, with planning for station locations set to begin later this year. Gianaris and Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer are among the city’s most vocal boosters for expanding bike-share to their districts, located in western Queens. New stations in Long Island […]

Citi Bike Cracked Seven Trips Per Bike Yesterday (That’s a Lot)

By Brad Aaron | Aug 7, 2013 | 24 Comments

Citi Bike reached a milestone Tuesday. For the first time, NYC bike-share riders took over 42,000 trips, for an average of seven trips per bike. The last record-breaking day was July 31, which saw 41,895 trips. For comparison’s sake, London has never cracked six trips per bike per day, and Velib averages about five trips […]

After Eight Weeks, NYC Bike-Share Usage Already Comparable to London’s

By Ben Fried | Jul 19, 2013 | 44 Comments

NYC Bicycle Share recently posted about ten days’ worth of new Citi Bike user stats, and it looks like the heat wave isn’t putting a damper on bike-share trips. Less than two months after launch, Citi Bike now has more than 60,000 members. And with the heat index in Central Park consistently breaking the 100-degree […]

The Citi Bike Story No One’s Talking About: Only 3 Injuries in 500,000 Rides

By Ben Fried | Jul 3, 2013 | 108 Comments

It seems like the local press has run through so many permutations of the Citi Bike story that now it’s time to recycle Citi Bike stories from a year ago. One month after the system launched, the AP ran a story about the lack of a helmet requirement for Citi Bike riders (because helmet requirements […]

NYC Voters Pleased That Totalitarians Have Begrimed City With Bike-Share

By Ben Fried | Jun 27, 2013 | 15 Comments

After seeing Citi Bike in action for a few weeks, New York City voters support bike-share by a margin of 2.5 to 1, according to a new Quinnipiac poll — the first public opinion survey about NYC bike-share since the system launched. The land line and cell phone survey of 1,238 city voters found that 50 […]

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