Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Last week, Columbia University professor David King ran a great response to the recent grousing about bike-share stations. He posted this graph depicting how public perceptions of congestion pricing programs change over time. An outfit called CURACAO (one of the weirdest, most tortured acronyms of all time — it’s short for “coordination of urban road-user […]

Here it is: A bike-share station with bikes, and it’s not a photo shoot. A reader sent this shot of Foley Square across from the courts this morning. Update: More than 850 of the 6,000 bikes are in the stations as of this morning, according to NYC DOT. The blue bikes are a great conversation […]

Hats off to Matt Flegenheimer for the enlightening piece in today’s Times describing the lessons from other bike-share systems that informed New York’s big decisions about Citi Bike. This passage stood out, given the recent tabloid coverage about station placement: In London and Paris, stations are trenched in the ground, rendering them difficult to remove. Kiosks in […]