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The Hopeless Inadequacy of de Blasio’s “5 Borough Bike-Share”
City Hall announced small dockless bike-share pilots in four neighborhoods outside Manhattan today. Meanwhile, momentum for Citi Bike expansion has evaporated.
May 24, 2018
Trip Data Deflates the Dockless Bike-Share Hype
Dockless bike-share services carried just 4 percent of all American bike-share trips in 2017, according to estimates from NACTO, despite accounting for 44 percent of the nation's total bike-share fleet.
May 2, 2018
NYC Has a Bike-Share System That Works. Why Aren’t We Expanding It?
Instead of extending the usefulness of Citi Bike to more of the city, a two-tiered system could emerge in which neighborhoods outside the current Citi Bike service area get frozen out.
April 25, 2018
Dallas City Council Rejects Fees on Dockless Bike-Share Companies
The biggest bike-share experiment in the U.S. right now is happening in Dallas, and the city isn't quite sure what to do next.
April 10, 2018
What We Can Learn From the Runaway Success of UT-Austin Bike-Share
In the program's first 40 days, the campus bikes averaged 12 checkouts per bike per day. Why exactly did it work?
April 6, 2018
Citi Bike Offering $3 Single Ride Fares as a Promo. Why Not Make It Permanent?
The single ride fare is a month-long promotion that raises the question of whether Motivate - and New Yorkers interested in using bike-share - might be better off making it permanent.
April 4, 2018
De Blasio Could Help Many More New Yorkers With Bus Upgrades and Bike-Share Expansion Than With Ferry Subsidies
NYC bus ridership is in free fall, and Mayor de Blasio, who manages the city's streets, is the man who can fix it. Unfortunately, de Blasio's transportation priorities lie elsewhere. You can tell by looking at where the money goes.
March 1, 2018
Is the Dockless Bike-Share Revolution a Mirage?
There are big questions about the venture-funded dockless bike-share model that go deeper than the propriety of where the bikes are parked.
February 7, 2018
Dockless Bike-Share Is Leading a Stunning Cycling Comeback in China
Cycling rates have doubled in Chinese cities since the advent of dockless bike-share systems.
January 30, 2018
The Racist Dog Whistles in Complaints About Dockless Bike-Share
One commenter on a Georgetown listserv urged people to call the cops on bike-share riders for the offense of biking in the street.
January 24, 2018
