Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Gelinas Responds to Komanoff on Bike-Share Safety

By Streetsblog | May 21, 2013 | 43 Comments

Manhattan Institute fellow Nicole Gelinas submitted this response to Charles Komanoff’s critique of her weekend opinion piece in the New York Post about bike-share safety. Charles Komanoff, in his Streetsblog post, called my weekend Post piece on bike-share “intellectually muddled.” In the piece, he offers no evidence for any intellectual muck on my part. Instead, he uses mirage […]

Official Citi Bike Mobile App Now Available

By Stephen Miller | May 21, 2013 | 16 Comments

The official Citi Bike mobile application is now available to download. The app provides a map of station locations and real-time updates about bicycle and dock availability, as well as turn-by-turn directions, riding tips, and a timer to help Citi Bike users avoid charges for exceeding the limits per trip. The app also allows users to […]

Predictions of Bike-Share Carnage Are a Mirage and a Distraction

By Charles Komanoff | May 21, 2013 | 36 Comments

Just when you thought the bike-share detractors might have run out of steam — or at least taken a time-out — along comes an intellectually muddled piece in the NY Post warning of dead bike-share users littering Midtown streets. “Three people died in Paris’ first year of bike share. New York should heed Paris’s lesson.” […]

New York Post Serving as Stenographers for Bike-Share Litigants [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | May 21, 2013 | 53 Comments

Update: Streetsblog had a call in to FDNY about the Post story. After this post went up, we talked with spokesperson Frank Dwyer, who said: “We had no operational or response issues to this call. Period.” If you believe the story in today’s New York Post, it took an EMT crew over an hour to […]

Eyes on the Street: Bike-Share Stations Come to Williamsburg

By Stephen Miller | May 20, 2013 | 16 Comments

Citi Bike’s rollout to Long Island City, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and eastern Bedford-Stuyvesant was delayed by damage from Hurricane Sandy. But it looks like bike-share will be establishing a toehold in Williamsburg, with new stations installed in time for the system’s launch, now just one week away. In December, DOT revealed that flooding damage at Citi […]

Keys to the Citi Bike: Bike-Share Fobs Start to Arrive in Members’ Mailboxes

By Ben Fried | May 20, 2013 | 12 Comments

With a week to go until Citi Bike launches, we’re hearing from readers who received their annual member keys in the mail over the weekend. Here’s a look at the packet that reader “dporpentine” opened on Saturday. If you haven’t received your member key yet, I wouldn’t worry. Citi Bike has to send out about 13,000 […]

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