Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Relive Yesterday’s Big Bike-Share Announcement

By Ben Fried | Sep 15, 2011 | 2 Comments

If you couldn’t be at Madison Square yesterday, not to worry — Robin Urban Smith brings us the video highlights from the big bike-share press conference with Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, NYC business leaders, and progressive politicos.

Unscientific Survey Says: 100 Percent of New Yorkers Support Bike-Share

By Noah Kazis | Sep 14, 2011 | 7 Comments

At today’s big bike-share press conference, most reporters seemed enthralled by the prospect of thousands of new cyclists hitting the streets and, of course, failing to follow the rules of the road (whether they were scared of that scenario or salivating over it is not clear). One reporter also told us she was “just scouting […]

Sadik-Khan Announces a Bike-Share Program That’s Big Enough to Succeed

By Ben Fried | Sep 14, 2011 | 24 Comments

Addressing a plaza full of reporters at Madison Square this afternoon, Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced that the city is entering the next phase of its initiative to launch a public bike system stretching from the Upper West Side to Bedford Stuyvesant. The system will be run by Alta Bike Share and consist of about […]

NYC Bike-Share: First Look

By Brad Aaron | Sep 14, 2011 | 10 Comments

This photo simulation offers a glimpse of what New York City bike-share will look like. At this hour, DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson and a group of electeds are announcing details of the program — to feature 10,000 bikes at some 600 stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn — at Madison Square. We’ll […]

NYC Chooses Alta to Operate Bike-Share System With 10,000 Bikes

By Ben Fried | Sep 14, 2011 | 47 Comments

New York City has selected Alta Bike Share to run its public bike-share system, under an arrangement that promises to make bicycling an integral new transit option for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. The Public Bike System Company, which supplies systems in London, Washington, Boston, and Montreal, will produce the bikes and kiosks. The […]

NYC to Announce Bike-Share Operator This Afternoon

By Ben Fried | Sep 14, 2011 | No Comments

The wait is over — the city has selected an operator to run what is expected to be the nation’s most robust bike-share system. This just in from NYC DOT: NYC DOT COMMISSIONER SADIK-KHAN AND DEPUTY MAYOR WOLFSON JOIN ELECTED OFFICIALS AND CIVIC LEADERS TO ANNOUNCE SELECTION OF BIKE SHARE OPERATOR Event: NYC Department of […]

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