Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Quick Hits on Citi Bike Expansion and Manhattan Bike Lane Upgrades

By David Meyer | Aug 2, 2016 | 5 Comments

Good morning, NYC! New #citibike station for you at W 87 St & West End Ave! https://t.co/NrUGmd8JjU pic.twitter.com/PR6TKtOVT6 — Citi Bike (@CitiBikeNYC) August 2, 2016 Yesterday Citi Bike began its 2016 expansion, bringing new stations to Manhattan up to 110th Street and Brooklyn west of Prospect Park. We’ve got a few updates to share that didn’t make […]

Major Citi Bike Expansion Starts Today

By David Meyer | Aug 1, 2016 | 34 Comments

Early Monday morning and #citibike kicks off their huge 2016 expansion! pic.twitter.com/abCLKh0tuJ — Will Bissell (@BissMarkie) August 1, 2016 Citi Bike began installing a batch of 121 139 new stations this morning, kicking off a 2016 expansion phase that in Manhattan will reach up to 110th Street and in Brooklyn will extend to the neighborhoods between Red […]

Report: Access to Car-Share and Bike-Share Is Worse in Communities of Color

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 27, 2016 | No Comments

Car-share and bike-share services are making it easier to go without owning a car in American cities, but access to “shared-use” systems remains limited in communities of color compared to majority-white neighborhoods, according to a new analysis from the Shared Use Mobility Center [PDF]. SUMC developed a method to analyze which places have the most potential for car-share and bike-share usage across […]

Report: As Cities Add Bike Lanes, More People Bike and Biking Gets Safer

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 20, 2016 | No Comments

The more people bike on the streets, the safer the streets are for everyone who bikes. This phenomenon, originally identified by researcher Peter Jacobsen, is known as “safety in numbers.” And that’s exactly what American cities are seeing as they add bike infrastructure — more cyclists and safer cycling — according to a new report from the National […]

Bike-Share NIMBY Flyer: Make Cobble Hill Great Again

By Ben Fried | Jun 29, 2016 | 45 Comments

A tipster spotted this flyer on Douglass Street in Cobble Hill, where Citi Bike will be expanding this year: Makes perfect sense. Keep bike-share at bay, and the neighborhood can be suspended in time. David Greenfield and the MTA won’t mess with F train service. Supermarkets will stay in business. The meddlesome construction of housing for other people […]

DOT and Motivate Will Put New Citi Bike Stations Closer Together

By David Meyer | May 19, 2016 | 13 Comments

The Citi Bike expansion that began last year has always been tempered by the fact that new stations are spread more thinly than the original bike-share network — making the expansion zones less convenient for bike-share users. Now it looks like DOT and Motivate, the company that runs Citi Bike, are going to fix that. In a […]

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