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How Do You Grade a Bike-Share System?
Bike-share has exploded in the last decade -- and in North America, just in the last few years. What started as a shaky concept in Amsterdam in the 1960s has matured into a viable transit option worldwide, with 600 systems offering more than 600,000 bikes.
December 6, 2013
One Chart Brilliantly Sums Up Citi Bike’s Safety Record
Courtesy of GIS specialist Tom Swanson, this graphic contains the best evidence yet that Citi Bike has not led to an increase in bicyclist injuries.
November 19, 2013
Citi Bike Carries More Riders on Fewer Bikes Than London Bike-Share
Five months after its launch, Citi Bike is already moving more people than its larger, more established sister program in London, according to an analysis by University College of London researcher Oliver O'Brien.
November 7, 2013
Strong Safety Record for NYC Bike-Share Should Come as No Surprise
The Times’ good-news story this morning, “No Riders Killed in First 5 Months of New York City Bike-Share Program,” could almost have been written a year ago. In fact, it was, sort of, in this space. In June 2012, Streetsblog published my piece pooh-poohing predictions of looming traffic carnage. We followed that with a similar post as the curtain was going up on bike-share in May.
November 5, 2013
TA Poll: Majority of Citi Bike Users Want Protected Car-Free Bike Lanes
In the latest issue of “StreetBeat,” Transportation Alternatives shares the results of the first in a series of online “flash polls” of Citi Bike riders. The polls are intended to gauge how members use the system, and how they’d like to see Citi Bike, and city streets, made better. Over 2,200 people responded to the first poll, TA reports.
October 17, 2013
The Convergence Between New Technologies and the Decline in Driving
According to a spate of recent studies, Millennials -- a bigger generation than the Baby Boomers -- are driving less than their parents did. But the underlying reasons are a matter of some dispute. Will younger Americans start happily motoring again once the economy is really humming, or is a lasting generational shift underway?
October 1, 2013
First Time Biking Over the East River Bridges? With the Right Help, It’s Easy
Shawneladee Cole is not what most people would consider an "avid" cyclist. So when e-mails on her Clinton Hill co-op listserv got heated as bike-share stations were installed this spring, Cole paid some attention, but it wasn't until the blue bikes appeared in May that she thought she might want to give it a shot.
September 26, 2013
Ride Citi Bike? TA Wants to Know What You Think
Transportation Alternatives has launched a series of surveys asking Citi Bike riders what they think of the bike-share program. The aim is to better inform TA's activism and introduce the advocacy group to bike-share users who may not already be familiar with ways they can help improve cycling in New York.
September 19, 2013
After 100 Days, Architects of NYC’s Bike-Share Success Take Stock
By the numbers, Citi Bike has been a huge success, taking weeks to build the substantial ridership that other systems took years to achieve. With the instant popularity have also come growing pains: Ensuring a balanced supply of bikes across the system remains an ever-present challenge, and plans to expand remain just over the horizon, leaving many neighborhoods clamoring for bike-share.
September 18, 2013
The American Bike-Share Fleet Has Doubled Since January
This has been an epic year for bike-share in America. According to a report from the Earth Policy Institute, the opening of Bay Area Bike Share yesterday brought the cumulative size of the bike-share fleets in U.S. cities to 18,000 bikes, more than twice what it was at the beginning of 2013.
August 30, 2013