Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

City Council Leaders Support Bike-Share After Procedural Disagreement

By Noah Kazis | Sep 12, 2011 | 18 Comments

New York City’s bike-share plans are poised to make a big leap this week, with the city expected to select the winner of the contract to operate the system very soon, according to Transportation Nation. The announcement will come after top City Council leaders have signaled that they back bike-share. “We support the bike share […]

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DC’s Public Bike Network Goes Bigger and Gets Better With Capital Bikeshare

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 4, 2011 | No Comments

Nearly three years ago Streetfilms took a day trip to Washington, D.C. to see their new bike-share system, Smart Bike DC, in action. We found the trial system a fun ride with great potential, but with only 120 bikes there wasn’t widespread use. Flash forward to 2011. With more than 1,100 bicycles and 110 stations, […]

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Nice Ride MN: Bike Share Expands in the Twin Cities

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 28, 2011 | No Comments

Nice Ride MN is a hit. The Twin Cities bike share recently celebrated its one year anniversary in June. And in July they started an expansion by adding more stations and bicycles to the network. We talked with Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak about the decisions that went into getting Nice Ride MN off the ground: […]

From London to D.C., Bike-Sharing Is Safer Than Riding Your Own Bike

By Noah Kazis | Jun 16, 2011 | 41 Comments

People riding shared public bicycles appear to be involved in fewer traffic crashes and receive fewer injuries than people riding their personal bicycles. In cities from Paris and London to Washington, D.C. and Mexico City, something about riding a shared bicycle appears to make cycling safer. Paris’s Vélib’ is perhaps the most iconic bike-sharing system […]

Moving on From Vandalism Fears, Times Tries New Bike-Share Scare Tactics

By Ben Fried | Jun 6, 2011 | 21 Comments

In its apparently boundless desire to see transportation innovation fail in New York City, the Times ran a remarkably shoddy and one-sided piece over the weekend on the city’s developing bike-share plans. Perhaps having realized that successful bike-share systems are cropping up in too many cities to keep on referring to the same image of […]

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The Biggest, Baddest Bike-Share in the World: Hangzhou China

By Elizabeth Press | Jun 2, 2011 | No Comments

Anyone who claims that bike-sharing is a European-style transportation innovation has clearly never set foot in Hangzhou, China. The 50,000-bike system in this southern China city of almost 7 million people (about 1.5 million people fewer than New York City) blows all other bike-shares off the map. As Bradley Schroeder of the Institute for Transportation […]

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