UPDATED: New York City Chooses Alta for Wide-Ranging Bike Share
What a bike share station might look like in NYC (image courtesy of NYC DOT)New York City has chosen Alta Bicycle Share, which runs systems in Washington, DC, Boston, and Melbourne, Australia, to run...
View ArticleEarly Photos of NYC Bike Share
NYC announced Wednesday that Alta bicycle share company will run New York City's bike share program to launch next year. Here's an early peak at what it will look like.The official announcement is...
View ArticleWhere You Can Test Out a NYC Bike Share Bike, Starting This Weekend
(Photo Kate Hinds)If you are excited to learn more about bike share in New York you have five chances in the next two weeks to meet representatives from Alta, the company behind the plan, and test out...
View ArticleTN MOVING STORIES: Compromise Spending Bill Shaping Up, A Look at New York's...
Top stories on TN:In the city that never sleeps, the subway will. (Link)The structural integrity of California's Bay Bridge is in question. (Link)Faster buses come to 34th Street -- but BRT, it ain't....
View ArticleSan Francisco Poised to Pick Alta to Run Bike Share
A front view of a bike share station (photo by Kate Hinds)Alta does it again. If the Board of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District votes as recommended, Alta will get a $6 million contract to...
View ArticleBREAKING: Citibank Is Sponsor of NYC Bike Share, "Citibike." [UPDATED w/Pics...
(Photo by Andrea Bernstein)New York City has found two sponsors to pay for its bike share program, the only large bike share network in the country to operate entirely without government subsidies....
View ArticleNYC Mayor Bloomberg: No Date Yet for Bike Share Launch
Mayor Michael Bloomberg (center), flanked by Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro and Brooklyn City Council member Domenic Recchia at the New York Aquarium (photo by Arun Venugopal)[The Mayor...
View ArticleBloomberg: NYC Bike Share Delayed Until Spring (UPDATED)
(Photo by Andrea Bernstein)(UPDATED 9:55am) There will be no shiny blue Citi Bikes on the streets of New York until March."Unfortunately there are software issues" said New York City Mayor Michael...
View ArticleCapital Bikeshare Expansion Halted By Parts Problems
(photo by James Schwartz via flickr)(Armando Trull - Washington, D.C., WAMU) A lack of parts is putting the brakes on the expansion of the Capital Bikeshare program in the District, according to a...
View ArticleBike Share Coming to Portland -- When Alta Finds a Sponsor
(photo by gregraisman via flickr)(Rob Manning -- Portland, OR, OPB) Portland's city council approved bike share -- but funding it is largely the responsibility of hometown operator Alta.The one-year...
View ArticleBike Sharing is Coming to San Francisco and Silicon Valley
A D.C. bike share station (photo by flickr user James D. Schwartz)Bike share is rolling into the Bay Area this summer.In August, Alta Bicycle Share will launch 700 bikes at 70 stations. Half the bikes...
View ArticleNew Yorkers: Meet Your Bike Share Station Map
(Click for interactive map)New Yorkers, meet your Citi Bike station locations. Even more closely placed than your neighborhood Starbucks. Beginning next month, you'll be able to pick up and drop off...
View ArticleCiti Bike's Winter of Discontent
Thousands of New Yorkers ride Citi Bikes every day. But even though the bike share program acts as an extension of the city's public transportation system, it gets no public funding.Back when the...
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