If You Can Make It There…
Submitted by Noah Kazis on June 16, 2009One Comment
Times Square is transforming itself into a pedestrian- and cycle-friendly public space. Photo by Lorrie McClanahan.
I wrote yesterday about SmartBike DC, the capital’s new bike sharing program, and its plans to expand dramatically in the next two years.
It looks like New York City is also planning a major bike sharing program. Although their plans are still in the early stages, the New York City Department of Transportation has put out a long feasibility study outlining the benefits of bike sharing, best practices from around the world and what models would work best in New York. There’s a lot in there, but the headline is 89,500. That’s the number of bikes they expect their program to have. 89,500 bikes!
[...] Blogger looks at D.C. bike-share program: ‘Imagining that the DDOT wants to cover half the geographic area of the District, it would require 952 kiosks, one hundred times more than the current supply and ten times more than the planned size after expansion. If New York and Paris are right, D.C. isn’t doing enough to create a full-scale bike sharing program. [...]