Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Actually, People at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Are Excited to Use Bike-Share

By Noah Kazis | Jun 27, 2012 | 9 Comments

Attention Scott Stringer: The anti-bike share NIMBYs of Turtle Bay don’t speak for everyone who uses Dag Hammarskjold Plaza. I spent about an hour in Dag Hammarskjold this afternoon, talking to neighborhood residents and workers who had flocked to the plaza to enjoy their lunch break or shop at the Greenmarket. Citi Bike operator Alta […]

Liu’s and Pucher’s Bike-Share Math Is Wrong, and Not By a Little

By Charles Komanoff | Jun 25, 2012 | 17 Comments

Hey, remedial math teachers: the City Comptroller’s office is hiring. At least, let’s hope so. Judging from Comptroller John Liu’s innumerate broadside against the City’s Bike Share program, they badly need help in basic arithmetic, not to mention fact-checking. Let’s begin with Liu’s own words, insinuating that bike-share might cause one or more children to […]

Despite Media Posturing, Liu’s Bike-Share Report Mostly Calls for Safer Streets

By Noah Kazis | Jun 25, 2012 | 15 Comments

When bike-share launches next month, eventually adding 10,000 public bicycles to the streets of New York City, it won’t bring new chaos and peril to city streets, contrary to recent statements from Comptroller John Liu. Even so, with the number of cyclists set to increase dramatically, the launch of bike-share is a good opportunity for […]

Stringer Sides With UN Bike-Share Terror Fearmongers

By Noah Kazis | Jun 22, 2012 | 28 Comments

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer seems to have joined up with the NIMBYs of Turtle Bay in their fight to keep the United Nations — and more relevantly, those who live near it — free from bike-share stations. Echoing the rhetoric of a rogues’ gallery of East Midtown’s most committed opponents of livable streets, Stringer […]

NYPD Rule Would Wipe Out NYC’s Premier Bike Education Program

By Brad Aaron | Jun 21, 2012 | 25 Comments

A new fee imposed by NYPD could decimate free bike education programs that serve thousands of New Yorkers, and would jeopardize the education component of the city’s bike-share program. Bike New York, organizer of the Five Boro Bike Tour, holds hundreds of cycling classes each year. Classes designed to teach kids and adults to ride […]

Can East Side NIMBYs Thwart the UN Bike-Share Terror Threat?

By Brad Aaron | Jun 19, 2012 | 18 Comments

Ban Ki-moon may be pleased by the prospect of bike-share docks near the United Nations, but self-styled security advisors from the neighborhood are second-guessing the secretary general. DNAinfo reports: Dr. David Gootnik, who lives near East 43rd and Second Avenue, said the area is vulnerable because it is home to not only the United Nations […]

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