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Citi Bike Installs New Software, Laying the Foundation for Better Service
It's the beginning of the end for Citi Bike's software troubles.
March 30, 2015
Citi Bike Releases Map of Williamsburg and Greenpoint Expansion
Here's some eye candy for the weekend -- a map of Citi Bike's expansion into northern Brooklyn.
February 27, 2015
Citi Bike Expansion Plan Gets Going on the Upper West Side [Updated]
A public workshop last night set in motion the planning process for bike-share on the Upper West Side, part of Citi Bike's phase two expansion that will double the number of stations and reach up to 125th Street by 2017. NYC DOT said the station map for the neighborhood should be finalized sometime this fall but did not give a timeline for implementation.
January 30, 2015
Jay Walder on What’s Next for America’s Biggest Bike-Share Company
Last fall, former MTA chief Jay Walder took over as CEO of Alta Bicycle Share, part of a restructuring that injected new resources and expertise into a company that had struggled to keep up with the demands of running bike-share systems in half a dozen major American cities.
January 14, 2015
New Name for Alta Bicycle Share: “Motivate”
After new management took over in 2014, injecting capital and expertise that's expected to turn around a sputtering operation, the company formerly known as Alta Bicycle Share has adopted a new name: Motivate. (A verb! Very active transportation-y.)
January 14, 2015
Jersey City’s New Bike-Share System Will Be Open to Citi Bike Members
Jersey City is preparing to launch a bike-share program this year that will be compatible with Citi Bike, according to an announcement yesterday from Alta Bicycle Share. Jersey City lawmakers awarded Alta the contract to operate the system on Monday.
January 8, 2015
Stringer’s Citi Bike Report Is Woefully Behind the Times
Comptroller Scott Stringer's office took so long to produce an audit of Citi Bike maintenance that major issues flagged in the report no longer appear to be affecting the system.
December 15, 2014
Why Aren’t American Bike-Share Systems Living Up to Their Potential?
As policy director at the New York City Department of Transportation from 2007 to June, 2014, Jon Orcutt shepherded the nation's largest bike-share system through the earliest stages of planning, a wide-ranging public engagement process, and, last year, the rollout of hundreds of Citi Bike stations.
November 24, 2014
Will de Blasio’s Bike Lane Network Keep Pace With Citi Bike Expansion?
A City Council hearing on bike infrastructure is about to get underway this afternoon, where council members will "focus on ways to improve" NYC bike infrastructure, according to a press release from Ydanis Rodriguez, the transportation chair.
November 20, 2014
Michael Frumin Hired to Get Citi Bike Tech Back on Track
The company that runs Citi Bike has made a big hire, bringing on someone known for improving the customer experience by introducing new technology to the MTA. No, not new CEO Jay Walder. The newest employee at Alta Bicycle Share is its first-ever vice president for technology, Michael Frumin.
October 30, 2014