After Bike-Share Launches and the Dust Settles, Remember the NIMBY Frenzy
Last week, Columbia University professor David King ran a great response to the recent grousing about bike-share stations. He posted this graph depicting how public perceptions of congestion pricing programs change over time.
May 24, 2013
Mesmerizing! Citi Bikes Arrive
Here it is: A bike-share station with bikes, and it's not a photo shoot. A reader sent this shot of Foley Square across from the courts this morning.
May 24, 2013
Anthony Weiner: I Love Bike Lanes. Let Me Count the Exceptions…
Anthony Weiner, enemy of congestion pricing and infamous bike lane antagonist, is talking about street design on the campaign trail. Though there was plenty of warning this day would come, it's still kind of surreal.
May 22, 2013
Pledge to Streetsblog and This Awesome Elly Blue Collection Could Be Yours
Have you given to Streetsblog's spring pledge drive yet? If not, may I suggest that this is the week to do so. In addition to supporting livable streets journalism and putting yourself in the running to win a Dahon folding bike, you could take home a sweet collection of books and zines courtesy of eminent bike-ologist Elly Blue.
May 22, 2013
Citi Bike Member Packets Include Cycling-Near-Trucks Safety Tips
Yesterday we had a feisty exchange of posts between Charles Komanoff and Nicole Gelinas about what the city should do to enhance safety for Citi Bike users (and everyone else).
May 22, 2013
Earth to New York Post: Citi Bike Stations Are Designed to Be Flexible
Hats off to Matt Flegenheimer for the enlightening piece in today's Times describing the lessons from other bike-share systems that informed New York's big decisions about Citi Bike. This passage stood out, given the recent tabloid coverage about station placement:
May 22, 2013
Q Poll: Support for Cycling a Vote Winner for Mayoral Candidates
Mayoral candidates stand to gain votes if they support increased bicycling, according to the latest Quinnipiac poll.
May 22, 2013
A Smugger Version of This Weekend’s Backstabbing in the Daily News
This weekend you might have come across the anonymous Daily News editorial in which Arthur Browne's opinion team called Paul Steely White "smug" for defending bike-share (in an opinion piece solicited by Arthur Browne's opinion team). But is it smug to point out that New Yorkers who don't own cars also deserve to have a share of the curb? Or that bike-share stations made in 2013 belong in historic neighborhoods as much as 2013 model cars?
May 20, 2013
T-Minus 10 Days to Citi Bike Launch
The Rob Ford crack-smoking video is sucking the oxygen from every other bike-related story on this Bike to Work Day, but it looks like a good number of New Yorkers are keeping their eyes on the prize: Today is the last day to get a Citi Bike membership in time to ride on the day the system launches, May 27.
May 17, 2013