Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Tonight: Weigh in on Bike-Share Stations for Downtown Brooklyn

By Brad Aaron | May 15, 2012 | 19 Comments

There’s an important meeting of the Brooklyn Community Board 2 transportation committee coming up tonight, where the DOT bike-share team will present proposed locations for Citi Bike stations. The bike-share siting process has been praised by several community boards, and like all the other CBs within the bike-share service area, Brooklyn CB 2 hosted a […]

Mapping How NYC Bike-Share Meshes With Jobs and Transit

By Noah Kazis | May 15, 2012 | 6 Comments

Hungry for more bike-share maps? Yeah, us too. Thanks to Steven Romalewski, the director of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Mapping Service, we’ve got our fix. In a post on his Spatiality blog, Romalewski uses GIS to analyze the 413 bike-share stations posted on DOT’s website so far. One map, shown above, shows each station with […]

Can the Times Name a Transpo Project Planned More Openly Than Bike-share?

By Ben Fried | May 11, 2012 | 14 Comments

In an otherwise fair piece about the debut of the draft NYC bike-share map, the New York Times opted for this sensationalized lede: “After months spent shrouded in secrecy and speculation, the locations of bike-share stations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens have arrived.” I know we were all anxious to get a look at the […]

The Bike-Share Map: It’s Real, It’s Big, and It’s Only Going to Get Bigger

By Noah Kazis | May 11, 2012 | 29 Comments

Putting 420 big blue dots on a map of New York really crystallizes what had been abstract so far: Bike-share is going to blanket the core of the city. If you live, work, study, or socialize in Manhattan below 60th Street or northwest Brooklyn, there’s going to be a station within a few blocks of […]

Draft Bike-Share Station Map Now Online

By Ben Fried | May 11, 2012 | 32 Comments

This is cool. After receiving thousands of suggestions online and hosting dozens of public workshops about where to site bike-share stations, Alta Bikeshare and NYC DOT have finished a draft map of the initial service area and posted it online this morning. The boundaries for the first phase, which will launch this July, are (roughly): […]

Bike-Share Is for Short Trips, Not Four-Hour Jaunts

By Ben Fried | May 8, 2012 | 29 Comments

One of the stranger threads to come out of yesterday’s announcement that Citigroup will sponsor NYC bike-share is the complaint that it will cost a lot to take long rides on the system. The usually bike-savvy Gothamist ran the headline “CitiBike, NYC’s Bike Share, Will Cost $77 For A Four-Hour Ride,” and bike-commuting Reuters blogger Felix Salmon […]

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