Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Citi Bike Has Already Surpassed 10,000 Trips Per Day

By Ben Fried | May 31, 2013 | 75 Comments

Bike-share users made 10,099 trips, and annual membership continued to surge in the third full 24-hour period of usage stats that Citi Bike is reporting. Usage between 5 p.m. Wednesday and 5 p.m. Thursday topped 10,000 trips, an increase of about 33 percent over the previous 24 hours. Meanwhile, an additional 2,449 annual subscribers joined […]

Citi Bike Hits 7,500 Trips on Day Three

By Ben Fried | May 30, 2013 | 72 Comments

Citi Bike has been compiling daily stats on usage and membership on its blog, and in the 24 hours between 5 p.m. Tuesday and 5 p.m. Wednesday, users logged 7,500 trips on the bike-share system. The number of annual members increased by nearly 2,000 over the same period, bringing the total to 21,300. Joe Cutrufo […]

Citi Bike Membership Surges Past 20,000 — Smell the Desperation at the Post

By Ben Fried | May 29, 2013 | 35 Comments

That acrid scent wafting from the News Corp. Building is flop sweat pouring off Col Allan and the New York Post editors as they watch tens of thousands of New Yorkers start using the city’s new bike-share system. As of this morning, 20,000 people had purchased annual Citi Bike memberships, an increase of more than […]

To Reach 10,000 Bikes, DOT Looks to Sponsorships, Sandy Recovery Loan

By Stephen Miller | May 28, 2013 | 31 Comments

With 6,000 bicycles, New York’s bike-share program is already the largest in the country. In fact, immediately after launching, Citi Bike proceeded to eclipse the national daily ridership record (previously held by Capital Bikeshare), with 12,000 trips in 24 hours. Ridership should grow steadily as more people start using the bikes and the network expands, but how […]

Bike Habitat’s Charlie McCorkell: Citi Bike No Threat to NYC Bike Shops

By Ben Fried | May 28, 2013 | 17 Comments

Charlie McCorkell is a pioneering NYC bike advocate and the owner of one of the city’s most successful bike shops, Bicycle Habitat. His flagship store is on Lafayette Street, just north of Spring, which is right in the middle of the Citi Bike service area. After observing the first day of NYC bike-share from the store, […]

Bloomberg Was on Fire at Yesterday’s Bike-Share Presser

By Ben Fried | May 28, 2013 | 19 Comments

Yesterday’s Citi Bike announcement was maybe the last occasion to see Michael Bloomberg answer a whole string of bike-related questions from the NYC press corps in one sitting. The mayor has a reputation for jousting with reporters at these events, sometimes more crankily than others. Yesterday he was combative but clearly enjoying himself. He had […]

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