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Citi Bike Resumes Service After a Day and a Half Out of Commission
New Yorkers looking to get back in a bike-share saddle were out of luck this morning. After Motivate shut the system down at 11 p.m. Wednesday, it was still offline during the a.m. commute today, even though the streets were mostly clear of snow. We asked the company about the protocol for reactivating the system after a winter storm.
February 10, 2017
34 Council Members Want City Subsidies for Bike-Share Expansion
A supermajority on the City Council says Mayor de Blasio should funding in his 2018 budget to expand the bike-share system to more neighborhoods.
January 18, 2017
Seattle Just Canned Its Bike-Share System. What Went Wrong?
If Seattle is going to give bike-share another try, it will have to learn from this experience. The Pronto system started off small and never scaled up. And that mandatory helmet law really didn't help.
January 17, 2017
Nighttime Citi Bike Rides Are About to Get Brighter
Motivate, the company that runs Citi Bike, will install extra-bright "laserlights" on 250 bikes. The lights project the image of a bicycle onto the pavement about 20 feet in front a rider.
January 10, 2017
Study: D.C. Bike-Share Cut Neighborhood Congestion 4 Percent
Researchers have released new findings that suggest a more consistent traffic-reduction impact than previously thought.
January 9, 2017
Is Seattle’s Helmet Law Killing Its Bike-Share?
Bike-share in Seattle should be doing great, but it has floundered -- and a big reason may be the city's mandatory helmet law.
December 20, 2016
The Bike-Share Map NYC Should Be Aiming For
The goal of providing good bike-share service to many more New Yorkers would be better served by adopting a more specific framework than five-borough bike-share, which would be expensive to build out and difficult to operate.
December 1, 2016
What Will It Take to Bring Bike-Share to Every Borough?
City Council members want bike-share to expand into their neighborhoods in a five-borough network. Officials at DOT and bike-share operator Motivate share that vision, but they said at a hearing today that it won't come cheap.
November 28, 2016
Envisioning a More Equitable Future for NYC’s Burgeoning Bike-Share
While bike-share has become a viable and successful new way to get around NYC, it has yet to reach most of the city's low income neighborhoods and communities of color.
November 18, 2016
5 Highlights From Last Night’s Bike-Share vs. Parking Meeting
Last night's Brooklyn Community Board 6 bike-share forum lacked the fireworks of previous meetings -- no physical threats this time. While the tone was civil, the demands from the anti-bike-share crowd weren't exactly reasonable.
October 21, 2016