Is Seattle’s Helmet Law Killing Its Bike-Share?
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Bike-share in Seattle should be doing great, but it has floundered -- and a big reason may be the city's mandatory helmet law.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing
![Covering every corner of NYC with bike-share stations may not pencil out, but this service area covering dense, walkable neighborhoods should be very achievable. Map: DCP [PDF]](https://nyc.preprod-streetsblog.alley.ws/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/bike-share-map-2009-920x1024-e1481040566930.jpg?w=202)
The Bike-Share Map NYC Should Be Aiming For
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The goal of providing good bike-share service to many more New Yorkers would be better served by adopting a more specific framework than five-borough bike-share, which would be expensive to build out and difficult to operate.
What Will It Take to Bring Bike-Share to Every Borough?
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City Council members want bike-share to expand into their neighborhoods in a five-borough network. Officials at DOT and bike-share operator Motivate share that vision, but they said at a hearing today that it won't come cheap.
Envisioning a More Equitable Future for NYC’s Burgeoning Bike-Share
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While bike-share has become a viable and successful new way to get around NYC, it has yet to reach most of the city's low income neighborhoods and communities of color.
5 Highlights From Last Night’s Bike-Share vs. Parking Meeting
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Last night’s Brooklyn Community Board 6 bike-share forum lacked the fireworks of previous meetings — no physical threats this time. While the tone was civil, the demands from the anti-bike-share crowd weren’t exactly reasonable. So far, Citi Bike has proven incredibly popular in CB 6, with some stations getting as much as seven rides per dock each day. That’s […]
Bike-Share Already Getting More Use Than Park Slope’s Free Parking Spots
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The new bike-share stations in Brooklyn south of Atlantic Avenue are getting a lot more use than your average free on-street parking space, according to recent Citi Bike data compiled by Carroll Gardens resident Viktor Geller [PDF]. Geller addressed the report to Brooklyn Community Board 6, which is holding a hearing on Thursday in response to complaints about bike-share stations […]