{"id":13003,"date":"2010-08-23T14:26:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T14:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecolocalizer.com\/?p=13003"},"modified":"2010-08-23T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T14:26:23","slug":"new-york-city-bicycle-sharing-program-to-be-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/new-york-city-bicycle-sharing-program-to-be-big\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Bicycle Sharing Program to be BIG!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI just wrote a piece on a cool visualization project of the new London cycle scheme<\/a>, or bike sharing program. Now, on the other side of the Atlantic, we have some very exciting news about a bicycle sharing program in New York.<\/p>\n

I have been pretty critical of U.S. bicycle sharing programs<\/a> in the past, and I think for good reason. While many of them reference and are trying to replicate the extremely successful Paris bike-sharing program, V\u00e9lib\u2019<\/a>, they are using 100 bikes or so instead of the tens of thousands of bikes<\/strong> V\u00e9lib\u2019\u00a0uses — not even on the same playing field.<\/p>\n

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Nonetheless, my point is not that bicycle sharing programs aren’t awesome. When I was working as the Executive Director of a non-profit promoting sustainable transportation and development in Virginia a couple years ago, this is one of the main programs I was interested in. And my thoughts were that such programs would become some of the hottest and best ways to promote cleaner transportation.<\/p>\n

The point is just, if you want to make a difference, you have to put something significant in first<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Now, one city that seems to get this is New York City. When I was working in this field full-time, I have to say that NYC seemed to be doing the best work the fastest. Portland and some other cities are at a higher level for such things today, but NYC seems to be doing the most to improve themselves. And, as a result, cycling has risen dramatically in NYC in recent years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their newest effort is to actually, more-or-less, replicate the extremely successful V\u00e9lib\u2019 bicycle sharing program, not just say they are.<\/p>\n

NYC is reportedly aiming to launch a new bicycle sharing program<\/a><\/strong> now that will start with 10,500 bikes (500 more than V\u00e9lib\u2019 started with), and expand to 49,000<\/strong>. Now, that is the way to do it!<\/p>\n

This is brand new… news, so there aren’t a lot of details out there on it just yet. But I definitely plan to come back to this if it moves forward as it is supposed to.<\/p>\n

Are you crazy about bikes<\/a>? If you are, you may want to join the\u00a0Biking Revolution of Love & Freedom facebook group<\/strong><\/a>. Check it out.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Stuck in Customs via flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just wrote a piece on a cool visualization project of the new London cycle scheme, or bike sharing program. Now, on the other side of the Atlantic, we have some very exciting news about a bicycle sharing program in New York. I have been pretty critical of U.S. bicycle sharing programs in the past, …<\/p>\n

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