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DOT Finalizes Weak Bike-Share Station Maps for Manhattan Expansion [Updated]
DOT's bike-share expansion maps for the Upper West Side and Upper East Side are now final, and they're not any better than the draft maps that showed a thinned-out network of stations for some of the city's densest neighborhoods.
July 10, 2015
Motivate and DOT Squabble, Jeopardizing Success of Bike-Share Expansion
A dispute between NYC DOT and the company that runs Citi Bike threatens to rob New York City's bike-share expansion of the very quality that's made the existing service so useful. The key issue is station density, and whether the stations where Citi Bike expands will be within easy walking distance of each other like in the rest of the system.
July 1, 2015
Upper West Siders to DOT: Citi Bike Stations Need to Be Closer Together
Citi Bike is coming to the Upper West Side, but the expansion map DOT revealed last night has big gaps between stations. Like the map for the Upper East Side, the UWS plan calls for fewer stations per square mile than the current Citi Bike service area.
May 13, 2015
Here’s Where Citi Bike Stations Will Go on the Upper East Side
At a meeting hosted by the Manhattan Community Board 8 transportation committee last night, DOT unveiled a map showing 39 planned Citi Bike station locations on the Upper East Side [PDF]. The city said it expects service to be operating as far north as 86th Street by late summer or early fall, with further expansion next year.
May 7, 2015
America’s Biggest Bike-Share Operator Now Makes Its Own Bikes
Motivate, the company that runs bike-share systems in several large American cities, is now manufacturing its own bikes. That might explain why the timetable for Citi Bike expansion has been getting a lot firmer.
May 7, 2015
Citi Bike Could Expand to 86th Street This Summer
It looks like some parts of Manhattan north of 59th Street could be getting Citi Bike sooner than previously expected.
May 4, 2015
NACTO: If You Want Bike-Share to Succeed, Put Stations Close Together
A new study from the National Association of City Transportation Officials [PDF] adds credence to the theory that station density is a key factor in whether a bike-share system will flourish or flop.
April 29, 2015
Bike-Share Comes to Philly With the Launch of Indego
On Thursday, Philadelphia's long wait for a bike-share system came to an end with the launch of the 60-station, 600-bike Indego system, which is set to expand in the near future. At the kickoff, volunteers and officials -- including Mayor Michael Nutter -- rode about half of those bikes to their docking stations.
April 24, 2015
Bay Area Bike Share to Expand Tenfold By 2017
Bay Area Bike Share will expand to a 7,000-bike system over the next two years and venture into Oakland, Berkeley, and Emeryville. San Francisco's system will dramatically increase to 4,500 bikes, and San Jose's will expand to 1,000.
April 3, 2015