Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Read Brad Lander’s Pitch-Perfect Statement on Bike-Share and Parking

By Brad Aaron | Oct 13, 2016 | 18 Comments

City Council Member Brad Lander released a pitch-perfect response to complaints about bike-share and curbside parking today. Other NYC pols should take note. Every time bike-share expands to new neighborhoods, some people get upset — mainly because the local supply of free curbside car parking shrinks by a fraction of a percent. Last week Assembly Member Dan O’Donnell, who represents the […]

Bike-Share Stations Don’t Usurp Parking — They Are Parking

By Brad Aaron | Oct 7, 2016 | 44 Comments

Untrue/sad @CitiBikeNYC post by @DannyODonnellNY. Was tons of input + in this ‘hood < 5% park in street. No effect on commercial load/unload pic.twitter.com/4DLyIUcNjg — pfrishauf (@pfrishauf) October 5, 2016 Space hogs in Manhattan and Brooklyn are complaining about bike-share stations on neighborhood streets, and the powers that be are listening. In a letter to […]

Expanded Citi Bike Routinely Hitting 60,000 Trips Per Day

By David Meyer | Sep 26, 2016 | 8 Comments

With 67,489 trips last Wednesday, Citi Bike hit a new daily ridership peak for the ninth time this month, according to an email sent to members this morning. Riders have made 10 million Citi Bike trips so far in 2016, reaching the milestone more three months earlier than last year. NYC’s bike-share system is in the middle of a […]

Tell CB 6 and Mayor de Blasio That Bike-Share Belongs on Brooklyn Streets

By Brad Aaron | Sep 19, 2016 | 20 Comments

Citibike is really cramping the parking spaces of the Park Slope working classes #bikenyc pic.twitter.com/0VJmE9KFK9 — Michael Pick (@mikepick) September 18, 2016 Last week a bunch of people showed up at a Brooklyn Community Board 6 meeting to complain about Citi Bike, which has recently expanded into Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Gowanus, and Red Hook. […]

Citi Bike Expands South of Atlantic Avenue

By David Meyer | Aug 19, 2016 | 8 Comments

Yesterday, Citi Bike began installing stations in the Brooklyn neighborhoods south of Atlantic Avenue and west of Prospect Park. A few stations are already operating, according to the Citi Bike station map, with a total of 73 set to go live in the area in the coming weeks. All told there are 139 new bike-share stations […]

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How to Build a Thriving, Equitable Bike-Share System

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 3, 2016 | No Comments

Bike-share has the capability to expand access to jobs and transit for communities in need of better transportation options — but only if the system is set up and operated in an equitable way. Our latest collaboration with the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) examines how to build a thriving, equitable bike-share system. At the end […]

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