Citi Bike Stuffings-An Overdone Compilation Of Recent Citibike Related Articles

Since the CitiBike launch this Memorial Day is the hottest, most polarizing topic rounding New York here is a bunch of stuff from recent reports and articles.  It's a dreary weekend but this issue is lighting a fire even under those who have sat back as the day go closer. But now everyone seems to have an opinion and the discourse has hardly been civilized.  Monday will sure be an interesting day.

CitiBike Share Program Rolls Into Docking Stations (DNAinfo.com)




 First batch of Citi Bikes appear in docking stations (Daily News)

Bike share heads to New York and critics raise the alarm
(MSNBC)

Bike-Share May Not Take Many Cars Off the Road, But That's OK (The Atlantic Cities)

Transportation Nation Bike Advice Project

Transportation Nation Bike Advice Project - WNYC
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With bike share launching next week, potentially thousands of people will be biking New York who haven't ever done so before. They need advice. Let's give them some. Listen to some tips -- and upload your own -- inside.

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Citi Bike Corrals Arrive on the Lower East Side

Citi Bike Corrals Arrive on the Lower East Side | Bowery Boogie
Within the last few days, the highly-anticipated Citi Bike infrastructure has been landing across the city like alien pods unleashed from the DOT mothership. New parking corrals were recently placed at Straus Square, Clinton Street (Fine Fare), Sara D. Roosevelt Park, Petrosino Square Park, and Mott Street (Cafe Gitane). More are most definitely on the way.

Gore de France - NYPOST.com

Gore de France - NYPOST.com

Paris’ bike-share deaths show the importance of caution on NYC streets

By NICOLE GELINAS
Last Updated: 11:10 PM, May 18, 2013
Posted: 10:32 PM, May 18, 2013

As City Hall prepares to roll out bike share, New Yorkers are bickering over dock placement. There’s a more pressing topic: saving lives.

Three people died in Paris’ first year of bike share. New York should heed Paris’ lesson.

Bike share will be a big deal. If each rental bike receives three to five daily uses, anywhere from 16,500 to 27,500 new riders will add themselves daily to the 31,359 cyclists in core Manhattan now.

The city has a special responsibility to new cyclists — because it’s putting them in relative danger.

Sure, cycling is safer than it once was. In a decade, as bicyclists’ numbers have quadrupled, annual deaths haven’t risen.

Paris’ program is very popular—but three died in its first year.
But that’s still 18 people dead last year, including three in Manhattan.

Bicyclists made up 6.5% of people killed in New York crashes, far more than their 1 percent share of people coming into Manhattan by subway, bus or car.

More cycling can make riders collectively safer, by increasing awareness by drivers. But it doesn’t make the individual Citibiker safer if she was doing something far safer — like riding the subway — before.

Yes, London, Washington and Boston have had bike share for couple of years — with no deaths (although London had a critical injury last month).

But Boston and Washington have a fraction of Manhattan’s population density (and expected bike usage). Core London, too, is less dense.

The city closest to us is Paris, with 81% of our population density.

You’ll often hear that bike share in Paris — or “Velib,” for liberty on a bike — has been a hit since its summer 2007 launch. True enough: Go to Paris, and you’ll see older ladies in skirts pedaling with their purses in their baskets just as often as you see thirtysomething males.

What you won’t hear is that Velib had a gruesome rollout.