Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

It’s Too Late to Preserve NYC’s Historic Streets in Amber

By Ben Fried | Jun 12, 2012 | 30 Comments

Last week the Times’ Local blog (now run by former Brooklyn Paper editor Gersh Kuntzman) ran a piece about some Fort Greene residents who think bike-share stations would “interfere” with the historic district: “The [kiosk is] much too large and out of place for [this block],” said Wyatt Cheek. “We just want it to be […]

Big Public Meeting on North Brooklyn Bike-share Coming Up Tomorrow Night

By Ben Fried | Jun 11, 2012 | 6 Comments

If you live in North Brooklyn and you’re excited about the impending arrival of bike-share, you don’t want to miss the Community Board 1 meeting tomorrow evening. DOT will be presenting its revised bike-share station siting plan for Williamsburg and Greenpoint, and it would be a mistake to assume that everything will work out on […]

London’s Bike-share How-To

By Ben Fried | May 25, 2012 | 6 Comments

For your viewing pleasure this weekend, here’s the animation produced by Transport for London explaining how to use Barclays Cycle Hire — the 570-station bike-share system that launched about two years ago. There’s a lot to cover in a little more than four minutes: when bike-share is useful, how to get a membership, what not […]

How Will You Use Bike-Share? New Trip Planner Lets You Find Out

By Noah Kazis | May 18, 2012 | 17 Comments

Pretty much anywhere you go within the bike-share service area, you’ll be within a few blocks of a bike-share station. There’s probably a station around the corner from your office. Odds are, it’ll be a boon for any of those tricky diagonal trips that aren’t well-served by the subway. To find out exactly how long […]

How Bike-Share Stations Stack Up Against Other Curb Consumers

By Noah Kazis | May 16, 2012 | 16 Comments

Bike-share, no doubt, is going to be a major addition to the streets of New York — in terms of both impact and visibility. Within the service area, there’s going to be a station every few blocks. And some of those stations are going to have a lot of bicycle docks: 59 in many locations, […]

The Spatial Payoff of NYC Bike-Share

By Ben Fried | May 16, 2012 | 11 Comments

Last night’s Brooklyn Community Board 2 hearing on bike-share was hardly the “battle” anticipated by the Brooklyn Eagle. About 20 people testified after DOT presented the draft station maps for the district [PDF, pages 10-15], and almost all of them supported the bike-share program in general, with several residents expressing delight at the prospect of […]

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