Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Chattanooga Bike-Share Goes Live With Same Software as NYC

By Ben Fried | Jul 24, 2012 | 4 Comments

In a good sign for the deployment of Citi Bike in New York City, Chattanooga went live with its bike-share system last night. The system, called Bike Chattanooga, consists of 300 bikes at 28 stations. More importantly, as far as New York is concerned: It uses the same bikes and kiosks as Citi Bike, which […]

In Mistake-Marred Letter, CB 6 Lends Voice to East Side Bike-Share NIMBYs

By Noah Kazis | Jul 23, 2012 | 17 Comments

Where can bike-share stations be located, according to the East Side’s not-in-my-backyard crowd? Not Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, which is both too serene for bikes and too crowded with protestors. Not around the corner from the Israeli consulate, which is too fat a target for terrorists who, as Marcia Kramer could tell you, prefer to deliver explosives via […]

Bloomberg: Citi Bike Software Not Ready for Prime Time Yet

By Ben Fried | Jul 19, 2012 | 5 Comments

The hold-up with NYC’s bike-share launch is technical, not political. Mayor Bloomberg revealed this afternoon that Citi Bike is behind schedule because of kinks in the system’s software that are still being worked out. The Public Bike System Company, which produces the kiosks and bikes for NYC’s system, recently switched software providers, claiming that its former […]

Citi Bike Launch Pushed Back From July to August

By Noah Kazis | Jul 16, 2012 | 23 Comments

The city’s bike-share system will launch in August, not the previously announced start date of July, according to the Citi Bike Twitter feed. Two months ago, city officials announced that New Yorkers would be able to start taking trips on the new public bike system by late July. Now bike-share operator Alta is telling prospective […]

Actually, People at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Are Excited to Use Bike-Share

By Noah Kazis | Jun 27, 2012 | 9 Comments

Attention Scott Stringer: The anti-bike share NIMBYs of Turtle Bay don’t speak for everyone who uses Dag Hammarskjold Plaza. I spent about an hour in Dag Hammarskjold this afternoon, talking to neighborhood residents and workers who had flocked to the plaza to enjoy their lunch break or shop at the Greenmarket. Citi Bike operator Alta […]

Liu’s and Pucher’s Bike-Share Math Is Wrong, and Not By a Little

By Charles Komanoff | Jun 25, 2012 | 17 Comments

Hey, remedial math teachers: the City Comptroller’s office is hiring. At least, let’s hope so. Judging from Comptroller John Liu’s innumerate broadside against the City’s Bike Share program, they badly need help in basic arithmetic, not to mention fact-checking. Let’s begin with Liu’s own words, insinuating that bike-share might cause one or more children to […]

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