Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Can the Times Name a Transpo Project Planned More Openly Than Bike-share?

By Ben Fried | May 11, 2012 | 14 Comments

In an otherwise fair piece about the debut of the draft NYC bike-share map, the New York Times opted for this sensationalized lede: “After months spent shrouded in secrecy and speculation, the locations of bike-share stations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens have arrived.” I know we were all anxious to get a look at the […]

The Bike-Share Map: It’s Real, It’s Big, and It’s Only Going to Get Bigger

By Noah Kazis | May 11, 2012 | 29 Comments

Putting 420 big blue dots on a map of New York really crystallizes what had been abstract so far: Bike-share is going to blanket the core of the city. If you live, work, study, or socialize in Manhattan below 60th Street or northwest Brooklyn, there’s going to be a station within a few blocks of […]

Draft Bike-Share Station Map Now Online

By Ben Fried | May 11, 2012 | 32 Comments

This is cool. After receiving thousands of suggestions online and hosting dozens of public workshops about where to site bike-share stations, Alta Bikeshare and NYC DOT have finished a draft map of the initial service area and posted it online this morning. The boundaries for the first phase, which will launch this July, are (roughly): […]

Bike-Share Is for Short Trips, Not Four-Hour Jaunts

By Ben Fried | May 8, 2012 | 29 Comments

One of the stranger threads to come out of yesterday’s announcement that Citigroup will sponsor NYC bike-share is the complaint that it will cost a lot to take long rides on the system. The usually bike-savvy Gothamist ran the headline “CitiBike, NYC’s Bike Share, Will Cost $77 For A Four-Hour Ride,” and bike-commuting Reuters blogger Felix Salmon […]

Quinn: Bike-Share Will Give NYers “Healthy, Green Way to Navigate the City”

By Noah Kazis | May 7, 2012 | 8 Comments

Looks like Streetsblog readers and corporate CEOs aren’t the only ones excited about bike-share. After today’s big announcement, which included not only the branding of bike-share but also new details about the pricing and rollout of the program, the glowing reactions started to pour into our inbox. Here’s what we’re hearing: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn […]

Citigroup to Sponsor NYC Bike-Share at $41 Million Over Five Years

By Ben Fried and Noah Kazis | May 7, 2012 | 48 Comments

The largest bike-share system in North America will be sponsored by one of the world’s largest financial institutions. At City Hall today, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a $41 million, five-year sponsorship arrangement with Citigroup that will fund most of the cost of implementing NYC’s bike-share network. The system will go by the name “Citi Bike,” […]

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