Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

With a Boost From Bike-Share, Cycling Surges on Mexico City’s Mean Streets

By Noah Kazis | | 4 Comments
This is the third in a series of reports about sustainable transportation policies in Mexico City. Last week, Streetsblog participated in a tour of the city led by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Previous installments covered pedestrian improvements and the city’s new bus rapid transit system. Mexico City never […]

The Biggest Bike-Share Beneficiaries Won’t Be Cyclists

By Ben Fried | | 9 Comments
This column on the “super-users” of Boston’s Hubway bike-share system was a breath of fresh air after reading some of our local NYC coverage depicting bike-share planning as a raging conflict between car owners, pedestrians, and bike advocates. Writer Jonathan Simmons does a quick profile of the Hubway customers who use the system more than anyone […]

Spot the Celebrity Bike-Share Planner

By Ben Fried | | 4 Comments
It was another evening of hands-on bike-share station planning at Manhattan Community Board 2 last night, as New Yorkers hunched over maps of SoHo and Greenwich Village, marking the best places to site bike-share kiosks. If you live or work in the bike-share service area, you really ought to mark your calendar for the station […]
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