Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

NYC’s Next Four Years: From Good Enough to Great

By Paul Steely White | Nov 11, 2009 | 11 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg has already shown how much his administration can accomplish in just a few years. Since Janette Sadik-Khan’s appointment to head the DOT in 2007, the city has striped hundreds of miles of bike lanes, reclaimed acres of street space for pedestrians and improved bus travel for tens of thousands of New Yorkers. “More […]

Bike-Share: Not Just for French Commies

By Ben Fried | Nov 3, 2009 | 5 Comments

In Montreal, theft is “not a major problem” for the bike-share network. Photo: TreeHugger. The Times ran a piece on Vélib’s growing pains this weekend. The story is more thoroughly reported than the hatchet job we saw from the BBC back in February — no claims that bike-share in Paris will flame out quickly this […]

Eyes on the Street: Try a Bixi Bike on for Size at Union Square

By Ben Fried | Aug 20, 2009 | 32 Comments

A reader sends this photo taken on the west side of Union Square this morning. You’re looking at a temporary installation of a Bixi bike-share station. Bixi is one of three bike-share providers that have set up short demos this month at DOT’s invitation — the other brands are Eco-Trip and BCycle. You can’t get […]

On Big Day for Bike-Share, Boston Mayor Envisions World Class Cycling City

By Ben Fried | Aug 13, 2009 | 8 Comments

Several American cities have made halting strides towards implementing bike-share systems recently, but which will be the first to launch the kind of robust network needed for public biking to go mainstream? Right now, the runaway favorite is Boston. In Montreal, the Bixi bike-share network is so popular that it’s slated to expand ahead of […]

Bikes as Transit: New Study Envisions Possibilities for NYC

By Ben Fried | Apr 22, 2009 | 30 Comments

The Department of City Planning released a study this weekend about the possibilities for bike-share in New York City, and if you can spare the time to look it over, it’s a rewarding read. The best news: The city is thinking about bike-share on a scale that would successfully integrate cycling into the public transit […]

Boston Gets Serious About Bike-Share

By Ben Fried | Mar 5, 2009 | 6 Comments

That’s Boston Mayor Thomas Menino in the blue track suit. Photo: Boston Globe. The AP reports that Boston is looking to launch a bike-share program — and not the skimpy, half-hearted variety: The city has put out a request for proposals to create a bike share program. The proposal envisions a network of 150 stations […]

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