Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Tonight: Tell CB 2 Why Bike-Share Belongs in SoHo and the Village

By Ben Fried | May 2, 2013 | 65 Comments

There is nothing exceptional or interesting about the sight of cars parked in front of a New York City residence. But I’m running this dull photo anyway, because this is basically the same condition that has irritated some residents in downtown Manhattan neighborhoods about bike-share. Instead of cars going in between the traffic lane and […]

Check Out the Reaction to Bike-Share Installation Once the Novelty Is Gone

By Ben Fried | May 2, 2013 | 30 Comments

With NYC’s bike-share system in the delicate period where new stations are going in but people can’t yet use the bikes, the city’s press corps is gorging on stories about conflict. The reporters at the Post and CBS2 better enjoy it while it lasts, because once people get used to seeing bike-share in action, these […]

Bike-Share Has a Great Safety Record in Cities More Dangerous Than NYC

By Stephen Miller | May 1, 2013 | 16 Comments

With bike-share stations hitting the streets but the launch still a few weeks away, there’s a lot of misinformed speculation floating around about Citi Bike. A favorite tactic of the bike-share opposition is to conjure visions of chaos and “hell on wheels” after the system launches, as the Daily News did in a recent opinion […]

Reality Check: Bike-Share Station Takes Up Less Space Than Parked Cars

By Brad Aaron | Apr 30, 2013 | 28 Comments

You have to hand it to residents of 99 Bank Street. The lawsuit to have a bike-share station removed from the street in front of their West Village building is a textbook example of reactionary NIMBYism. The suit, which has already been rejected in court, claims the station violates a rule against the placement of […]

Eyes on the Street: A Bike-Share Station With Bikes in It

By Ben Fried | Apr 30, 2013 | 34 Comments

Over the weekend, @KyleGiunta posted this tantalizing photo of a Citi Bike station with bikes in it on Front Street in DUMBO. The bikes were docked for a photo shoot, not the imminent launch of the system (installations have reached as far up as the NYU area, the last we checked — still a lot […]

The Embarrassing Laziness of Ginia Bellafante’s Bike-Share Kvetchfest

By Ben Fried | Apr 29, 2013 | 31 Comments

I wish I could say I was surprised that the Times published Ginia Bellafante’s collection of stereotypes and gripes about bike-share in the Sunday edition. But it’s exactly the kind of shallow kvetchfest I’ve come to expect when the Times tries to encapsulate the state of bike-related public policy. Mostly I’m just embarrassed, as a New Yorker […]

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