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Report: As Cities Add Bike Lanes, More People Bike and Biking Gets Safer
The more people bike on the streets, the safer the streets are for everyone who bikes. This phenomenon, originally identified by researcher Peter Jacobsen, is known as "safety in numbers." And that's exactly what American cities are seeing as they add bike infrastructure -- more cyclists and safer cycling -- according to a new report from the National Association of City Transportation Officials [PDF].
July 20, 2016
Bike-Share NIMBY Flyer: Make Cobble Hill Great Again
A tipster spotted this flyer on Douglass Street in Cobble Hill, where Citi Bike will be expanding this year:
June 29, 2016
DOT and Motivate Will Put New Citi Bike Stations Closer Together
The Citi Bike expansion that began last year has always been tempered by the fact that new stations are spread more thinly than the original bike-share network -- making the expansion zones less convenient for bike-share users. Now it looks like DOT and Motivate, the company that runs Citi Bike, are going to fix that.
May 19, 2016
As Jersey City and Hoboken Fight Over Bike-Share, Everyone Loses
A dispute between Hoboken and Jersey City is making the decision to operate separate bike-share systems in each city look even worse.
April 19, 2016
Citi Bike Will Expand Uptown With Its Too-Sparse Station Network
The good news: Citi Bike is expanding up to 130th Street later this year.
April 14, 2016
Citi Bike Announces 4 Percent Increase in Annual Membership Fee
Citi Bike announced today that it will increase the cost of annual membership from $149 to $155, or 4 percent, effective March 1. The $60 annual fee for NYCHA residents will not change, nor will the option to pay for annual membership in monthly installments of $14.95. In an email to members, Citi Bike emphasized that annual subscribers will get access to a larger service area as hundreds of new stations come online.
February 9, 2016
Bike-Share Open Data Standard Clears the Way for Better Trip Planning Apps
It's about to get easier to plan trips that include bike-share.
November 25, 2015
The Next Brooklyn Bike-Share Expansion Will Be the Thinnest Part of Citi Bike
DOT unveiled its latest Citi Bike expansion map last week, and the stations look significantly more spread out than stations in the rest of the system.
October 19, 2015
Eyes on the Street: Children Play Mere Feet From Citi Bikes — The Horror!
Let's take a moment to remember the fury of the Upper East Side parents who discovered last month that a bike-share station had begrimed the same block schoolchildren use for midday recess on E. 82nd Street near Second Avenue, next to P.S. 290.
October 6, 2015