Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Motivate and DOT Squabble, Jeopardizing Success of Bike-Share Expansion

By Ben Fried | Jul 1, 2015 | 38 Comments

A dispute between NYC DOT and the company that runs Citi Bike threatens to rob New York City’s bike-share expansion of the very quality that’s made the existing service so useful. The key issue is station density, and whether the stations where Citi Bike expands will be within easy walking distance of each other like in the rest […]

Take a Look at the EZ New Citi Bike Docks

By Stephen Miller | Jun 19, 2015 | 6 Comments

The new Ben Serotta-designed Citi Bikes are hitting the streets — 1,000 are supposed to go into circulation by the end of the month. But wait, there’s more. Citi Bike is also testing out new docking mechanisms. I tried one out at the bike-share station on Eighth Avenue next to Penn Station, where a few docks have […]

Upper West Siders to DOT: Citi Bike Stations Need to Be Closer Together

By Stephen Miller | May 13, 2015 | 53 Comments

Citi Bike is coming to the Upper West Side, but the expansion map DOT revealed last night has big gaps between stations. Like the map for the Upper East Side, the UWS plan calls for fewer stations per square mile than the current Citi Bike service area. Both neighborhoods are among the densest residential areas […]

Here’s Where Citi Bike Stations Will Go on the Upper East Side

By Stephen Miller | May 7, 2015 | 30 Comments

At a meeting hosted by the Manhattan Community Board 8 transportation committee last night, DOT unveiled a map showing 39 planned Citi Bike station locations on the Upper East Side [PDF]. The city said it expects service to be operating as far north as 86th Street by late summer or early fall, with further expansion next year. […]

America’s Biggest Bike-Share Operator Now Makes Its Own Bikes

By Ben Fried | May 7, 2015 | 56 Comments

Motivate, the company that runs bike-share systems in several large American cities, is now manufacturing its own bikes. That might explain why the timetable for Citi Bike expansion has been getting a lot firmer. When the current Motivate management team took over last fall, they inherited two big problems. Most of their systems ran on flawed software that crippled reliability […]

Citi Bike Could Expand to 86th Street This Summer

By Stephen Miller | May 4, 2015 | 20 Comments

It looks like some parts of Manhattan north of 59th Street could be getting Citi Bike sooner than previously expected. At a town hall hosted by Council Member Helen Rosenthal last week, DOT Manhattan Borough Commissioner Margaret Forgione said Citi Bike would expand to 86th Street by August or September, and to 110th Street “probably in March,” […]

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