Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Chuck Schumer Proposes Making Bike-Share Memberships Tax Deductible

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 2, 2014 | No Comments

If you drive to work, the IRS allows you to pay for parking with pre-tax money. Same goes if you take the train or the bus (though transit commuters can’t claim as much tax-free earnings as car commuters). People who ride their own bikes are also eligible to deduct some associated costs. But if you […]

New Citi Bike Data on Individual Trips Shows How Bike-Share Links to Transit

By Stephen Miller | Mar 31, 2014 | 8 Comments

Today, Citi Bike opened up a treasure trove of data on how people are using the system, giving the public access to details of individual trips, featuring information such as starting point, ending point, trip time, bike identification number, and anonymous information about the bike user, including gender, age, and whether the rider was using […]

Boston Doctors Now Prescribing Bike-Share Memberships

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 28, 2014 | No Comments

The newest tool for doctors in the fight against obesity? That’s right: Bike-share. This week in Boston, doctors introduced a program called Prescribe-a-Bike, offering low-income residents struggling with obesity an annual Hubway bike sharing membership for the low price of $5. The program is being administered by Boston Medical Center in partnership with the city […]

Should Alta Be Running NYC Bike-Share?

By Ben Fried | Mar 24, 2014 | 44 Comments

With today’s report in the Daily News that Citi Bike operator Alta Bicycle Share is failing to meet several key performance targets, a short run-down of the current state of bike-share operations in New York City is in order. What we’ve learned since Citi Bike launched last May is that bike-share works in NYC. It […]

NYC Subsidizes Lightly-Used Ferries. Why Not Hugely Popular Bike-Share?

By John Petro | Mar 21, 2014 | 83 Comments

The Wall Street Journal reports that Citi Bike is in the red, needing “tens of millions of dollars” to keep running. The de Blasio administration hopes that private money will be found to rescue Alta Bicycle Share, the company that operates Citi Bike, which is the only large bike-share system in the country not to get public funds. […]

Report: NYC’s Density and Transit Set Citi Bike Apart

By Stephen Miller | Mar 10, 2014 | 5 Comments

Even when adjusted for its size, Citi Bike’s ridership numbers have quickly surpassed comparable systems. While there are many factors shaping Citi Bike’s success, a new report from NYU argues that the program’s connections to transit could be a key to its strikingly high ridership. Last week, graduate students at NYU’s Rudin Center for Transportation […]

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