Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Citi Bike Stations Spotted in Fort Greene [Updated]

By Ben Fried | Apr 10, 2013 | 31 Comments

After the first Citi Bike stations were installed in Bed Stuy and Clinton Hill over the weekend, NYC DOT Policy Director Jon Orcutt told Transportation Nation that bike-share implementation will “be moving through the Brooklyn area and then into Manhattan over the next few weeks.” And it looks like stations have now been installed at […]

As Citi Bike Stations Appear, DOT Recaps How People Helped Pick Sites

By Stephen Miller | Apr 8, 2013 | 9 Comments

Over the weekend, the first Citi Bike stations were installed. And before you could say, “the New York Post,” NYC DOT put out a report today reviewing the extensive public planning process that informed hundreds of bike-share station siting decisions. The next time you see a story about a handful of people complaining about the placement […]

Eyes on the Street: First Citi Bike Stations Hit the Pavement

By Stephen Miller | Apr 8, 2013 | 20 Comments

Well this is an encouraging sign. Over the weekend, we received the first reports of Citi Bike station installations on NYC streets. On Saturday, Streetsblog reader Ben Kintisch sent in photos of a 19-dock bike-share station at Monroe Street and Classon Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant. Workers said that eight stations were being installed that day. […]

Taking Citi Bike for a Test Ride

By Ben Fried | Apr 5, 2013 | 27 Comments

With Citi Bike set to launch later this spring, the long wait for bike-share in New York City is almost over. But I couldn’t bring myself to wait an instant longer, so recently I headed over to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to try out some Citi Bikes. A small network of bike-share stations has been […]

Updated Bike-Share Map Appears to Show Phased Rollout Plan

By Stephen Miller | Mar 28, 2013 | 9 Comments

We’ve known since December that Hurricane Sandy shrank the initial rollout of bike-share from 420 stations to 293, with an expansion promised by the end of 2013. We also knew that this meant the service area would, at first, not include Long Island City and parts of north Brooklyn. We just didn’t know exactly where. […]

Local B-cycle Memberships Will Be Good in 15 Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 15, 2013 | No Comments

B-cycle memberships are about to get a lot more portable. Beginning next week, annual memberships from this bike-sharing company will be honored in 15 cities where B-Cycle operates, from Nashville, Tennessee, to Kailua, Hawaii. The program is called B-connected. Bob Burns, president of B-cycle, said in a press release that the program will “empower annual […]

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