Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Despite Media Posturing, Liu’s Bike-Share Report Mostly Calls for Safer Streets

By Noah Kazis | Jun 25, 2012 | 15 Comments

When bike-share launches next month, eventually adding 10,000 public bicycles to the streets of New York City, it won’t bring new chaos and peril to city streets, contrary to recent statements from Comptroller John Liu. Even so, with the number of cyclists set to increase dramatically, the launch of bike-share is a good opportunity for […]

Stringer Sides With UN Bike-Share Terror Fearmongers

By Noah Kazis | Jun 22, 2012 | 28 Comments

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer seems to have joined up with the NIMBYs of Turtle Bay in their fight to keep the United Nations — and more relevantly, those who live near it — free from bike-share stations. Echoing the rhetoric of a rogues’ gallery of East Midtown’s most committed opponents of livable streets, Stringer […]

NYPD Rule Would Wipe Out NYC’s Premier Bike Education Program

By Brad Aaron | Jun 21, 2012 | 25 Comments

A new fee imposed by NYPD could decimate free bike education programs that serve thousands of New Yorkers, and would jeopardize the education component of the city’s bike-share program. Bike New York, organizer of the Five Boro Bike Tour, holds hundreds of cycling classes each year. Classes designed to teach kids and adults to ride […]

Can East Side NIMBYs Thwart the UN Bike-Share Terror Threat?

By Brad Aaron | Jun 19, 2012 | 18 Comments

Ban Ki-moon may be pleased by the prospect of bike-share docks near the United Nations, but self-styled security advisors from the neighborhood are second-guessing the secretary general. DNAinfo reports: Dr. David Gootnik, who lives near East 43rd and Second Avenue, said the area is vulnerable because it is home to not only the United Nations […]

It’s Too Late to Preserve NYC’s Historic Streets in Amber

By Ben Fried | Jun 12, 2012 | 30 Comments

Last week the Times’ Local blog (now run by former Brooklyn Paper editor Gersh Kuntzman) ran a piece about some Fort Greene residents who think bike-share stations would “interfere” with the historic district: “The [kiosk is] much too large and out of place for [this block],” said Wyatt Cheek. “We just want it to be […]

Big Public Meeting on North Brooklyn Bike-share Coming Up Tomorrow Night

By Ben Fried | Jun 11, 2012 | 6 Comments

If you live in North Brooklyn and you’re excited about the impending arrival of bike-share, you don’t want to miss the Community Board 1 meeting tomorrow evening. DOT will be presenting its revised bike-share station siting plan for Williamsburg and Greenpoint, and it would be a mistake to assume that everything will work out on […]

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