Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Some Hints of What to Expect From NYC Bike-Sharing

By Noah Kazis | Nov 23, 2010 | 19 Comments

In just the first year after introducing Vélib, Parisian bike traffic jumped 70 percent. Montreal’s Bixi system saw 1 million rides in its first four months. And New York City’s Department of City Planning estimates that a bike-share program would be used by as many as 554,000 residents, 33,000 commuters and 4 million tourists annually, […]

NYC DOT Seeking 10,000-Bike System From Bike-Share Providers

By Ben Fried | Nov 23, 2010 | 43 Comments

New York City’s plans to implement a public bicycle system should accelerate rapidly with the official release today of a document asking potential providers to submit bids to operate the program. The request for proposals that bidders will be responding to has been posted in the city register, giving a sense of the scale of […]

City to Pursue “Large-Scale” Bike-Share for the Big Apple

By Ben Fried | Nov 22, 2010 | 21 Comments

After a long and tantalizing build-up, New York City will officially declare its intent to pursue a public bike-share system tomorrow, when it releases a request for proposals to potential operators, the Times reports. At a sufficient scale, the introduction of bike-sharing here promises to open up cycling to huge numbers of New Yorkers by […]

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Will Bike-Phobic Dan Maes Cost the Colorado GOP Major Party Status?

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 26, 2010 | No Comments

This is the third installment of Streetsblog Capitol Hill’s series on key governor’s races. Earlier we brought you stories about a candidate who likes bikes but isn’t sure about transit in Tennessee, and the choice between light rail and bus rapid transit in Maryland. Here we turn our attention to Colorado. Colorado is a classic […]

Real-Time Bike-Share Maps Show America’s Got Some Catching Up to Do

By Noah Kazis | Oct 21, 2010 | 8 Comments

A fantastic new visualization of 16 bike-share systems around the world lets you see how people are using public bikes from London to Melbourne. You can watch animated graphics, for example, of bikes getting picked up in one part of town and dropped off in another during rush hour. The site, created by Oliver O’Brien, […]

Roosevelt Island Aims to Pioneer Bike-Sharing in NYC

By Noah Kazis | Aug 25, 2010 | 12 Comments

A rendering of a bike-sharing station at the Roosevelt Island F train station. Image: AccessRI/Hunter College Dept. of Urban Affairs and Planning. As cities across the United States open new bike-sharing systems this year, New York City’s commitment to launching bike-share remains cloudy. On the semi-independent Roosevelt Island, however, momentum is building to launch a […]

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