Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

New York City Sets in Motion America’s Largest Bike-Share System

By Ben Fried | May 27, 2013 | 33 Comments

Five years ago, the New York City Department of Transportation signaled its interest in creating an extensive bike-share system “to accommodate a wide range of potential short trips.” Now New Yorkers have that system at their fingertips. With today’s launch of Citi Bike, there’s a new travel option in the mix — 6,000 bikes at 330 […]

Today’s Bike-Share Headlines

By Stephen Miller | May 27, 2013 | 8 Comments

As Citi Bike Passes Member Number 17,500, a Look at How It Fits Into Bloomberg Legacy (NYT) Want to Learn Bike-Share Basics? The Times, WSJ, and WNYC Have Got You Covered Pete Donohue: NYC Survived 9/11 and Sandy, “I Think We’ll Be Okay” With Bike-Share (News) Bike-Share Quieted the Skeptics in London, And It Will […]

After Bike-Share Launches and the Dust Settles, Remember the NIMBY Frenzy

By Ben Fried | May 24, 2013 | 28 Comments

Last week, Columbia University professor David King ran a great response to the recent grousing about bike-share stations. He posted this graph depicting how public perceptions of congestion pricing programs change over time. An outfit called CURACAO (one of the weirdest, most tortured acronyms of all time — it’s short for “coordination of urban road-user […]

Kids Take Citi Bike for a Stationary Spin

By Brad Aaron | May 24, 2013 | 5 Comments

Kids love bikes and shiny new things, so it’s not a huge surprise that this group of middle-schoolers would flock to the bike-share station at East 11th Street near First Avenue. You have to be 16 to join Citi Bike, but what we see in the video, posted by EV Grieve, are a lot of […]

Mesmerizing! Citi Bikes Arrive

By Ben Fried | May 24, 2013 | 74 Comments

Here it is: A bike-share station with bikes, and it’s not a photo shoot. A reader sent this shot of Foley Square across from the courts this morning. Update: More than 850 of the 6,000 bikes are in the stations as of this morning, according to NYC DOT. The blue bikes are a great conversation […]

How the Post Engineers Bike-Share Bashing, Facts Be Damned

By Brad Aaron | May 23, 2013 | 24 Comments

It took a few days, but the Post found someone to go along with its bike-scare nonsense, according to the Post. Here’s the latest: “The bike racks present challenges to firefighters and frankly, trying to get around the city now is harder than ever before,” Uniformed Firefighters Association President Steve Cassidy said at a press […]

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