Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Updated Bike-Share Map Appears to Show Phased Rollout Plan

By Stephen Miller | Mar 28, 2013 | 9 Comments

We’ve known since December that Hurricane Sandy shrank the initial rollout of bike-share from 420 stations to 293, with an expansion promised by the end of 2013. We also knew that this meant the service area would, at first, not include Long Island City and parts of north Brooklyn. We just didn’t know exactly where. […]

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Local B-cycle Memberships Will Be Good in 15 Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 15, 2013 | No Comments

B-cycle memberships are about to get a lot more portable. Beginning next week, annual memberships from this bike-sharing company will be honored in 15 cities where B-Cycle operates, from Nashville, Tennessee, to Kailua, Hawaii. The program is called B-connected. Bob Burns, president of B-cycle, said in a press release that the program will “empower annual […]

Can’t Wait for Bike-Share? Tide Yourself Over With Citi Bike Marketing

By Ben Fried | Jan 28, 2013 | 22 Comments

A reader sends in this sign of the impending arrival of New York City bike-share, currently scheduled to launch in May. This text ad is running at the top of some Gmail accounts, with a rotating tag line. Our source says the others include: “Unlock New York City with Citi Bike” “Citi Bike makes moving […]

Bloomberg on the Radio: Bike Share Is the “Wave of the Future”

By Brad Aaron | Jan 11, 2013 | 6 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg brushed off an anti-bike crank while bragging on bike-share, set to launch this spring, during his radio show this morning. “It is just gonna be unbelievable,” the mayor said, showing off a Citi Bike key he keeps on his keychain to co-host John Gambling. “And the people that don’t like it are gonna […]

Damage From Sandy Pushes Bike-Share Launch From March to May

By Ben Fried | Dec 7, 2012 | 13 Comments

This just in from NYC DOT: After bike-share equipment stored in the Brooklyn Navy Yard sustained damage in the Sandy storm surge, the city’s public bike system is now set to launch in May, not March. The initial service area will also be about three-quarters as large as the plan before the storm. Instead of […]

Citi Bike Kiosks Running in Previews for Brooklyn Navy Yard Workers

By Brad Aaron | Oct 23, 2012 | 10 Comments

An anonymous source informs us that, starting today, tenants and employees of the Brooklyn Navy Yard will be able to try out Citi Bike, which will help with “operational training” for the bike-share system. The Navy Yard covers an area of about 300 acres, and according to our tipster, Citi Bike stations have been placed all […]

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