Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Jay Walder on What’s Next for America’s Biggest Bike-Share Company

By Ben Fried | Jan 14, 2015 | 31 Comments

Last fall, former MTA chief Jay Walder took over as CEO of Alta Bicycle Share, part of a restructuring that injected new resources and expertise into a company that had struggled to keep up with the demands of running bike-share systems in half a dozen major American cities. This morning, the company came out with […]

New Name for Alta Bicycle Share: “Motivate”

By Ben Fried | Jan 14, 2015 | 23 Comments

After new management took over in 2014, injecting capital and expertise that’s expected to turn around a sputtering operation, the company formerly known as Alta Bicycle Share has adopted a new name: Motivate. (A verb! Very active transportation-y.) Motivate operates bike-share systems in New York, DC, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle, making it the […]

Jersey City’s New Bike-Share System Will Be Open to Citi Bike Members

By Brad Aaron | Jan 8, 2015 | 8 Comments

Jersey City is preparing to launch a bike-share program this year that will be compatible with Citi Bike, according to an announcement yesterday from Alta Bicycle Share. Jersey City lawmakers awarded Alta the contract to operate the system on Monday. The new system “will have reciprocal membership privileges with New York’s Citi Bike system,” Alta […]

Stringer’s Citi Bike Report Is Woefully Behind the Times

By Ben Fried | Dec 15, 2014 | 14 Comments

Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office took so long to produce an audit of Citi Bike maintenance that major issues flagged in the report no longer appear to be affecting the system. The report dropped Thursday night, and on Friday several media outlets came out with stories following the lead of Stringer’s “scathing” press release, which emphasized Citi […]

Why Aren’t American Bike-Share Systems Living Up to Their Potential?

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 24, 2014 | No Comments

As policy director at the New York City Department of Transportation from 2007 to June, 2014, Jon Orcutt shepherded the nation’s largest bike-share system through the earliest stages of planning, a wide-ranging public engagement process, and, last year, the rollout of hundreds of Citi Bike stations. That makes Orcutt, formerly of Transportation Alternatives and the Tri-State Transportation […]

Will de Blasio’s Bike Lane Network Keep Pace With Citi Bike Expansion?

By Brad Aaron | Nov 20, 2014 | 23 Comments

A City Council hearing on bike infrastructure is about to get underway this afternoon, where council members will “focus on ways to improve” NYC bike infrastructure, according to a press release from Ydanis Rodriguez, the transportation chair. One issue that Transportation Alternatives will be highlighting at the hearing is the mismatch between the existing bike […]

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