Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Citi Bike Cracked Seven Trips Per Bike Yesterday (That’s a Lot)

By Brad Aaron | Aug 7, 2013 | 24 Comments

Citi Bike reached a milestone Tuesday. For the first time, NYC bike-share riders took over 42,000 trips, for an average of seven trips per bike. The last record-breaking day was July 31, which saw 41,895 trips. For comparison’s sake, London has never cracked six trips per bike per day, and Velib averages about five trips […]

After Eight Weeks, NYC Bike-Share Usage Already Comparable to London’s

By Ben Fried | Jul 19, 2013 | 44 Comments

NYC Bicycle Share recently posted about ten days’ worth of new Citi Bike user stats, and it looks like the heat wave isn’t putting a damper on bike-share trips. Less than two months after launch, Citi Bike now has more than 60,000 members. And with the heat index in Central Park consistently breaking the 100-degree […]

The Citi Bike Story No One’s Talking About: Only 3 Injuries in 500,000 Rides

By Ben Fried | Jul 3, 2013 | 108 Comments

It seems like the local press has run through so many permutations of the Citi Bike story that now it’s time to recycle Citi Bike stories from a year ago. One month after the system launched, the AP ran a story about the lack of a helmet requirement for Citi Bike riders (because helmet requirements […]

NYC Voters Pleased That Totalitarians Have Begrimed City With Bike-Share

By Ben Fried | Jun 27, 2013 | 15 Comments

After seeing Citi Bike in action for a few weeks, New York City voters support bike-share by a margin of 2.5 to 1, according to a new Quinnipiac poll — the first public opinion survey about NYC bike-share since the system launched. The land line and cell phone survey of 1,238 city voters found that 50 […]

Casey Neistat: Getting Around NYC Is a Huge Pain, But Not on Citi Bike

By Brad Aaron | Jun 17, 2013 | 14 Comments

Don’t let the title of the video fool you. As filmmaker Casey Neistat says, getting around NYC can be a hassle. But when he conducted his own commuter challenge — factoring in speed, cost, comfort, and ease of use — Neistat found Citi Bike preferable not only to a cab ride, but to his personal […]

Using Citi Bike Data to Chart Trips, Miles, Membership, and Outages

By Stephen Miller | Jun 14, 2013 | 30 Comments

Citi Bike is on pace to surpass 40,000 annual members sometime today, and users had made more than 212,000 trips between the Memorial Day launch and yesterday at 5 p.m. These numbers, reported daily on the Citi Bike website, have provided a continuous source of data that Google software engineer Antonio D’souza has charted to illustrate […]

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