Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Eyes on the Street: Bike-Share Stations Come to Williamsburg

By Stephen Miller | May 20, 2013 | 16 Comments

Citi Bike’s rollout to Long Island City, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and eastern Bedford-Stuyvesant was delayed by damage from Hurricane Sandy. But it looks like bike-share will be establishing a toehold in Williamsburg, with new stations installed in time for the system’s launch, now just one week away. In December, DOT revealed that flooding damage at Citi […]

Keys to the Citi Bike: Bike-Share Fobs Start to Arrive in Members’ Mailboxes

By Ben Fried | May 20, 2013 | 12 Comments

With a week to go until Citi Bike launches, we’re hearing from readers who received their annual member keys in the mail over the weekend. Here’s a look at the packet that reader “dporpentine” opened on Saturday. If you haven’t received your member key yet, I wouldn’t worry. Citi Bike has to send out about 13,000 […]

T-Minus 10 Days to Citi Bike Launch

By Ben Fried | May 17, 2013 | 32 Comments

The Rob Ford crack-smoking video is sucking the oxygen from every other bike-related story on this Bike to Work Day, but it looks like a good number of New Yorkers are keeping their eyes on the prize: Today is the last day to get a Citi Bike membership in time to ride on the day the […]

NYCHA Residents Can Now Sign Up for Discount Citi Bike Memberships

By Stephen Miller | May 16, 2013 | 14 Comments

New York City Housing Authority tenants are now eligible to sign up for discounted Citi Bike memberships in a program that was first announced last month. Joining the service costs NYCHA residents $60 per year, $35 less than the standard price. All 29 NYCHA properties in the Citi Bike service area have at least one station a block […]

City Council Members Joining Citi Bike: The Tally Grows

By Stephen Miller | May 15, 2013 | 19 Comments

DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced bike-share’s Memorial Day launch date at last week’s budget hearing, but Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer had some news of his own: He had joined thousands of New Yorkers in becoming a Citi Bike member. “I want to say proudly I am one of the 8,000 people who have signed up […]

Bike-Share and the Mistake of Placing Too Much Stock in NIMBY Sentiment

By Ben Fried | May 14, 2013 | 36 Comments

The wisdom in Matt Flegenheimer’s bike-share NIMBY opus comes across nicely in the kicker: Nearby, on University Place, Alfred Haffenden, 71, sat between a bike station and his table of available consumer items — two Al Franken books, a baby-care advice book, and VHS copies of “The Shawshank Redemption” and “Wuthering Heights.” The stations would […]

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