Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Quinn: Bike-Share Will Give NYers “Healthy, Green Way to Navigate the City”

By Noah Kazis | May 7, 2012 | 8 Comments

Looks like Streetsblog readers and corporate CEOs aren’t the only ones excited about bike-share. After today’s big announcement, which included not only the branding of bike-share but also new details about the pricing and rollout of the program, the glowing reactions started to pour into our inbox. Here’s what we’re hearing: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn […]

Citigroup to Sponsor NYC Bike-Share at $41 Million Over Five Years

By Ben Fried and Noah Kazis | May 7, 2012 | 48 Comments

The largest bike-share system in North America will be sponsored by one of the world’s largest financial institutions. At City Hall today, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a $41 million, five-year sponsorship arrangement with Citigroup that will fund most of the cost of implementing NYC’s bike-share network. The system will go by the name “Citi Bike,” […]

Citi Bikes It Is: Citi to Sponsor New York Bike-Share

By Brad Aaron | May 7, 2012 | 18 Comments

Banking giant Citi will be the primary sponsor of New York’s bike-share system, set to launch this summer with 600 stations and 10,000 bikes in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Mayor Bloomberg and NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan made the announcement a short while ago at City Hall, where bikes and a logo-adorned station are temporarily on […]

Bike-Share Sponsor Announcement Coming Up Later This Morning

By Ben Fried | May 7, 2012 | 9 Comments

From the mayor’s press schedule: *11:00 AM Announces Sponsor of Bike Share Program with Transportation Commissioner Sadik-Khan City Hall Plaza MANHATTAN *Q & A to follow. A Bike Share station with the sponsor’s decals will be temporarily located in City Hall plaza for the announcement. So the biggest piece of the funding puzzle for launching New […]

Pricing Details Start to Solidify For July Bike-Share Launch

By Noah Kazis | May 1, 2012 | 28 Comments

The general shape of the pricing scheme for New York’s bike-share system — an annual membership cheaper than a monthly Metrocard, according to the early buzz from DOT — has been floating out there for a while. Now, with the system set to go live in July, the details are starting to get nailed down. Speaking at […]

Hoboken 2012: Bike Lanes Everywhere, Cycle Track and Bike-Share to Follow

By Noah Kazis | Apr 25, 2012 | 8 Comments

By the end of this year, it’s going to be very, very easy to bike around Hoboken. Thanks to an ordinance unanimously approved by the Hoboken City Council last year, the city is now at work implementing ten miles of new bike lanes. That number might seem small, until you realize that Hoboken only has 32 miles […]

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