Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Next week, NYC DOT and Alta Bikeshare will begin what promises to be a detailed public outreach process to help plan the city’s new bike-share system. The schedule for the first community board presentations has been posted on the city’s bike-share timeline. Planning the bike-share network will involve placing about 600 stations within a service […]

In London, the bike-share system runs thanks to a $40 million sponsorship deal over five years, including naming rights, with financial giant Barclays. In Boston, the Hubway bike-share system tapped into hometown pride with the selection of Brighton-based shoe company New Balance as the sponsor. In New York, the recently-announced operator, Alta Bikeshare, is looking […]

For the next few weeks DOT and Alta Bike Share will be setting up bike-share demonstration kiosks where New Yorkers can see how it all works and try out the sturdy, three-speed bikes that will be available at 600 stations once the system is up and running. The next demo is coming up tomorrow in […]

At today’s big bike-share press conference, most reporters seemed enthralled by the prospect of thousands of new cyclists hitting the streets and, of course, failing to follow the rules of the road (whether they were scared of that scenario or salivating over it is not clear). One reporter also told us she was “just scouting […]