Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Casey Neistat: Getting Around NYC Is a Huge Pain, But Not on Citi Bike

By Brad Aaron | Jun 17, 2013 | 14 Comments

Don’t let the title of the video fool you. As filmmaker Casey Neistat says, getting around NYC can be a hassle. But when he conducted his own commuter challenge — factoring in speed, cost, comfort, and ease of use — Neistat found Citi Bike preferable not only to a cab ride, but to his personal […]

Using Citi Bike Data to Chart Trips, Miles, Membership, and Outages

By Stephen Miller | Jun 14, 2013 | 30 Comments

Citi Bike is on pace to surpass 40,000 annual members sometime today, and users had made more than 212,000 trips between the Memorial Day launch and yesterday at 5 p.m. These numbers, reported daily on the Citi Bike website, have provided a continuous source of data that Google software engineer Antonio D’souza has charted to illustrate […]

Van Bramer on Queens Bike-Share: “Not Just Waiting For It… Pushing For It”

By Stephen Miller | Jun 13, 2013 | 2 Comments

At a rally this afternoon on the steps of City Hall, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer called for the city’s bike-share program to be expanded to western Queens as quickly as possible. This isn’t the first time Van Bramer — already a Citi Bike member — has pushed for bike-share. When the program was announced, he pressed the city […]

NYC Bike-Share Clearly Isn’t Ready to Blanket the City Yet

By Ben Fried and Stephen Miller | Jun 11, 2013 | 74 Comments

Over the weekend, Ted Mann and Josh Barbanel at the Wall Street Journal wrote a great piece about what it will take to expand NYC’s bike-share system to the city’s less affluent neighborhoods, and how the Bloomberg administration’s decision to forgo public funding affected the system map. Then came a silly Ginia Bellafante piece in […]

“The Daily Show” on Citi Bike: “Doesn’t Anybody Have a Real Objection?”

By Stephen Miller | Jun 7, 2013 | 17 Comments

Forget the ridership numbers: you know you’ve hit the big time when Jon Stewart and company spend a full nine minutes satirizing you at the top of “The Daily Show.” The first segment, which leans heavily on the fact that European cities also have bike-share and pseudo-satirizes unfounded fears about the program’s safety, is funny […]

Words of Wisdom From London’s Bike-Share Chief

By Stephen Miller | Jun 5, 2013 | 34 Comments

London launched its bike-share system in 2010, and it looks like New York’s experience so far isn’t so different from theirs. Animal New York went straight to the source to speak with Nick Aldworth, general manager of London’s Barclays Cycle Hire, who offers some words of wisdom for New Yorkers adjusting to Citi Bike. “I’ve […]

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