Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Bike-Share Is Going to Be Huge at NYC Transit Hubs

By Noah Kazis | | 36 Comments
The Department of Transportation is currently going around to community boards and presenting preliminary maps of bike-share locations. While the map for the full service area isn’t finished yet, the details that have come out so far are pretty exciting. One of the big questions we had about station siting concerned the bike-transit connection. Namely, […]

Prepping for July Bike-Share Launch, DOT Shows Prelim Station Sites to CB 3

By Ben Fried | | 11 Comments
After several months of public meetings and online feedback on bike-share station siting, NYC DOT is beginning to tour community boards with preliminary station maps in preparation for launching North America’s most expansive bike-share system this July. Yesterday evening, NYC DOT Policy Director Jon Orcutt walked the transportation and public safety committee of Manhattan Community […]

With a Boost From Bike-Share, Cycling Surges on Mexico City’s Mean Streets

By Noah Kazis | | 4 Comments
This is the third in a series of reports about sustainable transportation policies in Mexico City. Last week, Streetsblog participated in a tour of the city led by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Previous installments covered pedestrian improvements and the city’s new bus rapid transit system. Mexico City never […]

The Biggest Bike-Share Beneficiaries Won’t Be Cyclists

By Ben Fried | | 9 Comments
This column on the “super-users” of Boston’s Hubway bike-share system was a breath of fresh air after reading some of our local NYC coverage depicting bike-share planning as a raging conflict between car owners, pedestrians, and bike advocates. Writer Jonathan Simmons does a quick profile of the Hubway customers who use the system more than anyone […]

Spot the Celebrity Bike-Share Planner

By Ben Fried | | 4 Comments
It was another evening of hands-on bike-share station planning at Manhattan Community Board 2 last night, as New Yorkers hunched over maps of SoHo and Greenwich Village, marking the best places to site bike-share kiosks. If you live or work in the bike-share service area, you really ought to mark your calendar for the station […]
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