Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

NACTO: If You Want Bike-Share to Succeed, Put Stations Close Together

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 29, 2015 | No Comments

A new study from the National Association of City Transportation Officials [PDF] adds credence to the theory that station density is a key factor in whether a bike-share system will flourish or flop. In its analysis of bike-share systems across the U.S., NACTO found that stations that are close to other stations see more use. In addition, […]

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Bike-Share Comes to Philly With the Launch of Indego

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 24, 2015 | No Comments

On Thursday, Philadelphia’s long wait for a bike-share system came to an end with the launch of the 60-station, 600-bike Indego system, which is set to expand in the near future. At the kickoff, volunteers and officials — including Mayor Michael Nutter — rode about half of those bikes to their docking stations. I got […]

Bay Area Bike Share to Expand Tenfold By 2017

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 3, 2015 | No Comments

Bay Area Bike Share will expand to a 7,000-bike system over the next two years and venture into Oakland, Berkeley, and Emeryville. San Francisco’s system will dramatically increase to 4,500 bikes, and San Jose’s will expand to 1,000. The mayors of all five cities announced the expansion today along with Motivate, the system’s operator (formerly known as […]

Citi Bike Installs New Software, Laying the Foundation for Better Service

By Stephen Miller | Mar 30, 2015 | 30 Comments

It’s the beginning of the end for Citi Bike’s software troubles. After operating for nearly two years with software that drove bike-share users nuts, Motivate, the company that runs Citi Bike, says it has replaced its back-end with a better platform that will lay the foundation for major improvements in reliability and convenience. Citi Bike shut down abruptly […]

Citi Bike Releases Map of Williamsburg and Greenpoint Expansion

By Brad Aaron | Feb 27, 2015 | 2 Comments

Here’s some eye candy for the weekend — a map of Citi Bike’s expansion into northern Brooklyn. This map was submitted to Community Board 1 and obtained by the Brooklyn Paper. There are 53 stations planned for Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Unlike the Citi Bike phase two expansion areas in Manhattan and Queens, which are starting […]

Citi Bike Expansion Plan Gets Going on the Upper West Side [Updated]

By Larissa Zimberoff | Jan 30, 2015 | 10 Comments

A public workshop last night set in motion the planning process for bike-share on the Upper West Side, part of Citi Bike’s phase two expansion that will double the number of stations and reach up to 125th Street by 2017. NYC DOT said the station map for the neighborhood should be finalized sometime this fall […]

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