Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Committing to a “very intensive participatory planning process,” top DOT officials provided a wealth of detail about the city’s plans for bike-sharing at a meeting of Manhattan Community Board 2’s transportation committee last night. Members of the board and local residents in attendance voiced strong support for the initiative. When DOT selected Alta Bikeshare as […]

Next week, NYC DOT and Alta Bikeshare will begin what promises to be a detailed public outreach process to help plan the city’s new bike-share system. The schedule for the first community board presentations has been posted on the city’s bike-share timeline. Planning the bike-share network will involve placing about 600 stations within a service […]

In London, the bike-share system runs thanks to a $40 million sponsorship deal over five years, including naming rights, with financial giant Barclays. In Boston, the Hubway bike-share system tapped into hometown pride with the selection of Brighton-based shoe company New Balance as the sponsor. In New York, the recently-announced operator, Alta Bikeshare, is looking […]

For the next few weeks DOT and Alta Bike Share will be setting up bike-share demonstration kiosks where New Yorkers can see how it all works and try out the sturdy, three-speed bikes that will be available at 600 stations once the system is up and running. The next demo is coming up tomorrow in […]