Clearing The Air, A New Normal — Bicycles & Electric Cars = $10,000 In Social…
New York City is experiencing a high in bicycling as urbanites avoid mass transit and reinvent their traveling methods across the city.
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NYC Mayor de Blasio Hails Lyft’s Purchase of Citi Bike Operator but Deal Raises Serious…
Competition among new sustainable transportation companies is on the rise in cities across the country – with all signs pointing upward.
Firms provide daily mobility options to commuters in places like Washington, D.C. — for people who like to pedal to work.
7 Bikesharing Stories You Probably Missed — Dockless vs Docked, Bike Diversity, Lyft Bikesharing, &…
We obsessively cover electric vehicle news here on CleanTechnica since it’s one of the top solutions to global warming and air pollution. But there’s one thing greener than electric cars for city transport — bicycling!
Biking has had decent growth in certain cities around the world in recent years, and one of the biggest innovations stimulating that growth has been bikesharing. I recently ran across (i.e., searched out) recent bikesharing news that has slipped through our editorial fingers.
NYC Citi Bike Program Served Up 10 Million Rides In 2015
Originally published on Gas2. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on New Year’s Eve that his city’s bicycle sharing network, known as Citi Bike, was used by riders 10 million times in 2015. There are currently 7,500 bicycles in the system, which added 2,400 bikes and 138 new docking … [continued]
World’s Top 8 Bikeshare Programs
Originally published on Icebike. So, right off the bat, if you don’t know what a bikeshare is, it’s a program in which many bicycle stations are set up and people can rent a bike to use for a certain timeframe and return it at the same or a different station. … [continued]
Jersey City Bike Share Members Can Also Use NYC Bike Sharing Program
Originally published on ExpertSure. Jersey City mayor Steve Fulop has announced that Brooklyn based Alta Bicycle Share has been awarded a contract to operate a bike share program in his city. Alta operates New York City’s 6,000 bicycle Citi Bike system and was the sole bidder for the Jersey City … [continued]
NYC’s Citi Bike Data Visualized — Like Beautiful Choreography
Beyond all other experiences of the Big Apple, the positively stunning images I see when I think about it is the vision of bicycles as they weave in and out of traffic, bike lanes, and any tiny space available. Forget the Olympics — watch the prowess of the New York … [continued]
New Year’s Eve Ball In New York (Times Square) To Be Partially Powered By Bikes
The power of bicycling has been used before. Stationary bikes have been used to create electricity for hotels, they’ve been used in prisons to create electricity for nearby cities, they’ve been used to power bloggers, and they’ve been used to power many other things. This year, electricity generated from bicyclists will … [continued]
Sightings In Brooklyn Of NYC DOT Setting Up Bike Shop
The original beginnings of what is becoming a comprehensive bike-sharing system, the biggest one in the United States, has had some sightings — the NYC DOT is setting up shop with docking stations throughout the city and passersby have been snapping pictures. Ultimately, what is being provided is increasing ease … [continued]
NYC Gets a Huge Bike-Sharing Network, Largest in North America, Thanks to Janette Sadik-Khan (Citibank…
As someone in love with 3rd-generation bike-sharing systems before the large majority of Americans knew anything about them, I’ve been eagerly anticipating and covering NYC’s huge bike-sharing plans for years. This could transform NYC. Bike sharing did so in Paris, and NYC’s program is to be a similar size. Additionally, … [continued]
