Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Bike-Share in The Village: What Would Jane Jacobs Do?

By Charles Komanoff | May 3, 2013 | 76 Comments

I didn’t get to speak at the Manhattan Community Board 2 meeting last night to discuss bike-share — I stayed outside too long kibitzing on West 11th Street, so my speaker card landed at the bottom of the stack. Here’s what I would have said: I live in CB 1, on Duane Street, but my first […]

FDNY: “We Haven’t Had Any Issues” With Bike-Share Locations

By Stephen Miller | May 3, 2013 | 18 Comments

Republican mayoral candidate Joseph Lhota, on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show yesterday, said that while he didn’t “know this for a fact,” he views the bike-share program as an example of failed agency coordination in the Bloomberg administration, because he’d read press reports that people were complaining about new bike-share stations potentially impeding emergency response. Despite […]

Tonight: Tell CB 2 Why Bike-Share Belongs in SoHo and the Village

By Ben Fried | May 2, 2013 | 65 Comments

There is nothing exceptional or interesting about the sight of cars parked in front of a New York City residence. But I’m running this dull photo anyway, because this is basically the same condition that has irritated some residents in downtown Manhattan neighborhoods about bike-share. Instead of cars going in between the traffic lane and […]

Check Out the Reaction to Bike-Share Installation Once the Novelty Is Gone

By Ben Fried | May 2, 2013 | 30 Comments

With NYC’s bike-share system in the delicate period where new stations are going in but people can’t yet use the bikes, the city’s press corps is gorging on stories about conflict. The reporters at the Post and CBS2 better enjoy it while it lasts, because once people get used to seeing bike-share in action, these […]

Bike-Share Has a Great Safety Record in Cities More Dangerous Than NYC

By Stephen Miller | May 1, 2013 | 16 Comments

With bike-share stations hitting the streets but the launch still a few weeks away, there’s a lot of misinformed speculation floating around about Citi Bike. A favorite tactic of the bike-share opposition is to conjure visions of chaos and “hell on wheels” after the system launches, as the Daily News did in a recent opinion […]

Reality Check: Bike-Share Station Takes Up Less Space Than Parked Cars

By Brad Aaron | Apr 30, 2013 | 28 Comments

You have to hand it to residents of 99 Bank Street. The lawsuit to have a bike-share station removed from the street in front of their West Village building is a textbook example of reactionary NIMBYism. The suit, which has already been rejected in court, claims the station violates a rule against the placement of […]

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