Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Why Isn’t Bike-Share Reaching More Low-Income People?

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 3, 2012 | No Comments

Earlier this week, Denver’s B-Cycle bike-share system came under fire for allegedly side-stepping low-income neighborhoods. The accuser was City Council Member Paul Lopez, and his complaint was not something that system operators necessarily deny: There aren’t many stations in low-income neighborhoods. The broader claim — that bike-share isn’t serving the populations that might benefit most […]

Bike-Lane Litigant Norman Steisel Is Totally Jazzed About NYC Bike-Share

By Brad Aaron | Sep 17, 2012 | 9 Comments

If you haven’t seen Norman Steisel’s column in today’s Daily News, take a gander. Presumably, News readers are to believe that a lead player in the effort to erase safety gains for his cycling neighbors in Brooklyn, the man who to this day is involved in a protracted legal battle that has had a chilling effect on […]

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FHWA Offers a Guide for American Cities and Towns Considering Bike-Share

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 10, 2012 | No Comments

The Federal Highway Administration has come out with a handy report [PDF] for communities thinking about getting into the bike-sharing game. Based on a study of 12 planned and existing bike-sharing systems from around the U.S., the report is intended to help explain the basics of bike-share and guide cities through the choices they’ll face […]

Detailed Times Poll Numbers Show Broad Bike Lane, Bike-Share Support

By Stephen Miller | Aug 22, 2012 | 14 Comments

More complete numbers are available from the New York Times poll on bicycle lanes and bike-share, and despite what Times reporters might have you believe, they show that bicycling is very much in New York City’s mainstream. (In an earlier version of the online article, reporters Michael Grynbaum and Marjorie Connolly said that “cycling remains […]

Times Poll Confirms: 66 Percent of New Yorkers Like Bike Lanes

By Stephen Miller | Aug 21, 2012 | 26 Comments

Poll numbers released by the New York Times today show that 66 percent of adult New Yorkers think bike lanes are a good idea, joining a growing body of public opinion data that indicates strong local support for bike infrastructure. Just two years ago, the Times noted that “there have been no independent polls of New Yorkers’ attitudes […]

Citi Bike Launch Re-Scheduled for March [Updated]

By Ben Fried | Aug 17, 2012 | 29 Comments

Making his weekly appearance on WOR with John Gambling this morning, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the software problems affecting Citi Bike equipment won’t be resolved in time to launch New York’s bike-share system this year. The Public Bike System Company, which makes the stations and bikes that NYC will use, recently dropped the company that […]

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