Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

FHWA Offers a Guide for American Cities and Towns Considering Bike-Share

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 10, 2012 | No Comments

The Federal Highway Administration has come out with a handy report [PDF] for communities thinking about getting into the bike-sharing game. Based on a study of 12 planned and existing bike-sharing systems from around the U.S., the report is intended to help explain the basics of bike-share and guide cities through the choices they’ll face […]

Detailed Times Poll Numbers Show Broad Bike Lane, Bike-Share Support

By Stephen Miller | Aug 22, 2012 | 14 Comments

More complete numbers are available from the New York Times poll on bicycle lanes and bike-share, and despite what Times reporters might have you believe, they show that bicycling is very much in New York City’s mainstream. (In an earlier version of the online article, reporters Michael Grynbaum and Marjorie Connolly said that “cycling remains […]

Times Poll Confirms: 66 Percent of New Yorkers Like Bike Lanes

By Stephen Miller | Aug 21, 2012 | 26 Comments

Poll numbers released by the New York Times today show that 66 percent of adult New Yorkers think bike lanes are a good idea, joining a growing body of public opinion data that indicates strong local support for bike infrastructure. Just two years ago, the Times noted that “there have been no independent polls of New Yorkers’ attitudes […]

Citi Bike Launch Re-Scheduled for March [Updated]

By Ben Fried | Aug 17, 2012 | 29 Comments

Making his weekly appearance on WOR with John Gambling this morning, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the software problems affecting Citi Bike equipment won’t be resolved in time to launch New York’s bike-share system this year. The Public Bike System Company, which makes the stations and bikes that NYC will use, recently dropped the company that […]

Q Poll: 74 Percent of New Yorkers Think Bike-Share Is a Good Idea

By Ben Fried | Aug 16, 2012 | 7 Comments

The latest round of angry tabloid editorials shows no signs of dampening New Yorkers’ enthusiasm for bike-share. A Quinnipiac poll released today shows support for a network of public bicycles at 74 percent citywide, the highest positives yet for an idea that has consistently scored very well in public opinion. Bike-share’s popularity holds pretty steady across […]

If Today’s NY Post Editorial Board Were Writing in 1904…

By Ben Fried | Aug 1, 2012 | 7 Comments

Inspired by the bike-share screed in today’s Post and the excellent archive at nycsubway.org… August 1, 1904 – It’s time to admit that New York City should never have embarked on the folly of Subway construction. Here we sit, four years after the work of excavating the city’s streets began, and while the taxpayer has […]

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