Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Riding the Bike Share Boom

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Dec 6, 2013 | No Comments

Without a doubt, 2013 has been a banner year for bike-share in the United States. Major systems were implemented in New York City and Chicago, and many others debuted or expanded in other cities. In fact, Citi Bike users have biked over 10 million miles and the system is closing in on 100,000 annual members! The Institute for Transportation & Development […]

How Do You Grade a Bike-Share System?

By Katie Pearce | Dec 6, 2013 | No Comments

Bike-share has exploded in the last decade — and in North America, just in the last few years. What started as a shaky concept in Amsterdam in the 1960s has matured into a viable transit option worldwide, with 600 systems offering more than 600,000 bikes. The nonprofit Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) is […]

One Chart Brilliantly Sums Up Citi Bike’s Safety Record

By Ben Fried | Nov 19, 2013 | 10 Comments

Courtesy of GIS specialist Tom Swanson, this graphic contains the best evidence yet that Citi Bike has not led to an increase in bicyclist injuries. Using crash information scraped from NYPD PDFs by freelance web developer John Krauss, Swanson was able to map which bicyclist injuries occurred inside the Citi Bike service area. Then he charted […]

Citi Bike Carries More Riders on Fewer Bikes Than London Bike-Share

By Stephen Miller | Nov 7, 2013 | 8 Comments

Five months after its launch, Citi Bike is already moving more people than its larger, more established sister program in London, according to an analysis by University College of London researcher Oliver O’Brien. Using data feeds from Citi Bike and Transport for London, O’Brien calculated the average number of trips taken on both systems during […]

Strong Safety Record for NYC Bike-Share Should Come as No Surprise

By Charles Komanoff | Nov 5, 2013 | 51 Comments

The Times’ good-news story this morning, “No Riders Killed in First 5 Months of New York City Bike-Share Program,” could almost have been written a year ago. In fact, it was, sort of, in this space. In June 2012, Streetsblog published my piece pooh-poohing predictions of looming traffic carnage. We followed that with a similar […]

TA Poll: Majority of Citi Bike Users Want Protected Car-Free Bike Lanes

By Brad Aaron | Oct 17, 2013 | 5 Comments

In the latest issue of “StreetBeat,” Transportation Alternatives shares the results of the first in a series of online “flash polls” of Citi Bike riders. The polls are intended to gauge how members use the system, and how they’d like to see Citi Bike, and city streets, made better. Over 2,200 people responded to the […]

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