Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Time Mag Digs Montreal Bike-Share

By Gideon Shapiro | Nov 13, 2008 | 6 Comments

Bixi, Montreal’s new public bicycle-sharing program, has been listed among Time Magazine’s 50 Best Inventions of 2008. While a pilot version of the system debuted this fall, the real action begins next spring, when 2,400 bicycles will appear on city streets along with 300 solar-powered stations. The bikes are designed to withstand the abuses of […]

Design Comp Winner Envisions Neighborhood Bike-Share for Red Hook

By Ben Fried | Nov 12, 2008 | 2 Comments

The bike loft at the Smith-9th Street station designed by competition winner Jonathan Rule. The Forum for Urban Design announced the winner of its Red Hook bicycle plan competition Monday night, awarding top honors to Brooklyn native Jonathan Rule. The competition sought out ideas to make transit-poor Red Hook the city’s most bikeable neighborhood, asking […]

Vélib Film Screening Tonight

By Brad Aaron | Nov 5, 2008 | No Comments

We interrupt our post-election coverage to remind everyone of tonight’s Vélib film screening. Seats are still available. Here are the deets: Please join Janette Sadik-Khan, Transportation Commissioner of New York City, for the world premiere of "Paris: Vélo Liberté" from the critically acclaimed PBS series e²: the economies of being environmentally conscious. The screening will […]

Next Wednesday: Vélib on the Silver Screen

By Ben Fried | Oct 30, 2008 | No Comments

As if there’s not enough reason to be jittery with anticipation for next week’s events, mark this on your calendars: Please join Janette Sadik-Khan, Transportation Commissioner of New York City, for the world premiere of Paris: Vélo Liberté from the critically acclaimed PBS series e²: the economies of being environmentally conscious. The screening will be […]

Bike-Share Hero: Montreal’s Solar-Powered “Bixi” System

By Ben Fried | Oct 23, 2008 | 4 Comments

Via the Bike-Sharing Blog, this vid shows a modular bike-share station getting set up in what must be record time. It’s part of a trial system in Montreal called Bixi (contraction of "bike" and "taxi," rhymes with pixie), which launched last month and is set to ramp up with 2,400 bikes next April. Bike-Sharing Blog’s […]

Upright Citizens: Bikes and Walking Next Best Thing to Teleportation

By Ben Fried | Sep 25, 2008 | 2 Comments

From a Q&A with comedian Amy Poehler and her improv-mates in the Upright Citizens Brigade, spotted in the current issue of Time Out New York: What’s the future of New York? What are your hopes, and what needs to happen? Matt Besser: I want them to get rid of that law that inhibits Critical Mass. […]

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