Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

French Revolution

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 26, 2007 | 18 Comments

Two lanes in the middle of this Parisian avenue have been set aside for the exclusive use of buses, bikes and taxis. Private automobiles have been squeezed into the margins. Serge Schemman has a great little essay on Parisian transportation and public space policy on the editorial page of today’s New York Times. I was […]

Microbuses and Bike Sharing: The New Parisian Street Scene

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 24, 2007 | 11 Comments

Luc Nadal of the Institute for Transportation Development Policy sends along these photos showing some of the exciting new things happening on Parisian streets these days. We’ve been hearing a lot about Velib, Paris’s new public bike-sharing program. But that is just one of many new transportation and public space programs initiated by Mayor Bertrand […]

The London Model is Dead. Time to Look at Paris.

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 18, 2007 | 13 Comments

David Haskell, executive director of the Forum for Urban Design, and organizer of last week’s New York Bike-Share Project demonstration in Soho, says it’s time for New York City to ditch the London model and take a closer look at the traffic-reduction techniques Paris has implemented without congestion pricing. An op/ed in today’s New York […]

A French Revolution: This One On Two Wheels, No Guillotine

By Jason Varone | Jul 16, 2007 | 1 Comment

On Sunday in Paris, more than 10,000 bicycles became available at 750 self-service docking stations. The bike program, called Vélib (for "vélo," bicycle, and "liberté," freedom) is supposed to double in size by the end of the year. Pierre Aidenbaum, mayor of Paris’s trendy third district, said "For a long time cars were associated with […]

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