Bike-Share Sponsor Announcement Coming Up Later This Morning
From the mayor's press schedule:
By
Ben Fried
9:42 AM EDT on May 7, 2012
From the mayor’s press schedule:
*11:00 AM Announces Sponsor of Bike Share Program with Transportation Commissioner Sadik-Khan
City Hall Plaza
MANHATTAN
*Q & A to follow. A Bike Share station with the sponsor’s decals will be temporarily located in City Hall plaza for the announcement.
So the biggest piece of the funding puzzle for launching New York City bike-share is in place, and we’ll get a good look this morning at how the bikes and stations will appear. Any guesses who’ll have their logo on the system’s 600 stations?
Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.
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