{"id":22296,"date":"2011-09-21T10:08:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecolocalizer.com\/?p=22296"},"modified":"2012-11-25T00:05:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T00:05:22","slug":"nyc-bike-sharing-program-to-start-with-10000-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/nyc-bike-sharing-program-to-start-with-10000-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Bike-Sharing Program to Start with 10,000 Bikes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have written about New York City’s<\/a> planned bike-sharing program<\/a> a couple times here on EcoLocalizer, and have written about bike-sharing programs in Paris<\/a>, China<\/a>, Barcelona<\/a>, London<\/a> (a couple times<\/a>), Chicago<\/a>, D.C.<\/a>\u00a0(sister site Ecopreneurist has as well — linking to that piece), Boston<\/a>, and my current city of Wroclaw<\/a> (twice). I’m a fan. But I’ve got one problem with many attempts at bike-sharing — the programs start too small. Well, NYC is not disappointing me. It’s starting with 10,000 bikes at 600 stations, comparable to Paris (probably the most successful and certainly the biggest program in the world, which started with 10,000 bikes at 750 stations).<\/p>\n

There was indication even last year that NYC’s program was going to be big (first link above), but I was still hesitant to jump for joy, waiting for some more official news and progress — I know how these things can get killed. The news has come. More from Streetsblog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

New York City has selected Alta Bike Share to run its public bike-share system, under an arrangement that promises to make bicycling an integral new transit option for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. The Public Bike System Company, which supplies systems in London, Washington, Boston, and Montreal, will produce the bikes and kiosks.<\/p>\n

The winning bid features the hallmarks of the world\u2019s best bike-share systems \u2014 there will be many bikes and many stations, spaced closely together so that any kiosk is a short walk from the user\u2019s destination.<\/p>\n

…some key factoids:<\/p>\n