Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Sadik-Khan, Wolfson Invite New Yorkers to Sign Up for Bike-Share

By Stephen Miller | Apr 15, 2013 | 40 Comments

In 2009, the Department of City Planning released an ambitious blueprint for bike-share in New York, and in 2011, the Department of Transportation began an extensive public process to site actual bike-share stations. Now the planning is giving way to implementation, with North America’s largest year-round bike-share system set to launch in May. Today, Transportation Commissioner Janette […]

You Can Now Subscribe to Citi Bike

By Ben Fried | Apr 15, 2013 | 62 Comments

A big announcement is coming later this morning, but the news is all over Twitter: You can now buy a Citi Bike annual membership. Citi Bike membership registration is OPEN! Just signed up for my @citibikenyc key. Here’s the link > ow.ly/k4lZK #bikenyc — susi wunsch (@velojoy) April 15, 2013 An annual subscription is $95 […]

Citi Bike Stations Spotted in Fort Greene [Updated]

By Ben Fried | Apr 10, 2013 | 31 Comments

After the first Citi Bike stations were installed in Bed Stuy and Clinton Hill over the weekend, NYC DOT Policy Director Jon Orcutt told Transportation Nation that bike-share implementation will “be moving through the Brooklyn area and then into Manhattan over the next few weeks.” And it looks like stations have now been installed at […]

As Citi Bike Stations Appear, DOT Recaps How People Helped Pick Sites

By Stephen Miller | Apr 8, 2013 | 9 Comments

Over the weekend, the first Citi Bike stations were installed. And before you could say, “the New York Post,” NYC DOT put out a report today reviewing the extensive public planning process that informed hundreds of bike-share station siting decisions. The next time you see a story about a handful of people complaining about the placement […]

Eyes on the Street: First Citi Bike Stations Hit the Pavement

By Stephen Miller | Apr 8, 2013 | 20 Comments

Well this is an encouraging sign. Over the weekend, we received the first reports of Citi Bike station installations on NYC streets. On Saturday, Streetsblog reader Ben Kintisch sent in photos of a 19-dock bike-share station at Monroe Street and Classon Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant. Workers said that eight stations were being installed that day. […]

Taking Citi Bike for a Test Ride

By Ben Fried | Apr 5, 2013 | 27 Comments

With Citi Bike set to launch later this spring, the long wait for bike-share in New York City is almost over. But I couldn’t bring myself to wait an instant longer, so recently I headed over to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to try out some Citi Bikes. A small network of bike-share stations has been […]

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