Bike Sharing for Downtown?
Carroll Gardens Patch and The Brooklyn Paper report on a meeting of the Boerum Hill Traffic Task Force last night in which Department of Transportation Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Joseph Palmieri told the group a bike-sharing program might be coming to Downtown soon. The program, which the city issued an RFP for last year, isn’t expected…
Carroll Gardens Patch and The Brooklyn Paper report on a meeting of the Boerum Hill Traffic Task Force last night in which Department of Transportation Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Joseph Palmieri told the group a bike-sharing program might be coming to Downtown soon. The program, which the city issued an RFP for last year, isn’t expected to become a reality until 2012. However, according to the Brooklyn Paper, “Palmieri said that Downtown is a key location for the program, but it will be up to the winning bidder to propose the geographic confines of the rental zone.” Patch notes that members of the task force and Councilman Stephen Levin, who was in attendance at the meeting, welcomed the idea of bike sharing in the area.
A Bike Share Program May Come to Brooklyn [CG Patch]
Bike Share is Coming to Brooklyn! [BK Paper]
Photo by roland.
The Paris Velib is amazing and “awesome”. I challenge anyone not to love coming out of a subway and biking 1 mile off the transit grid to a store, and then turning around and biking back to the transit node, and poof, a roundtrip teleporting experience completed in 30 minutes, which used to take an hour plus. I have spent 3 weeks in Paris recently, and the bike share program there is game changing. And, finally, this is one improvement in NYC that you don’t need to be a millionaire to enjoy. The Paris Velib system costs like $0.50 for the first 30 minutes and $1.00 for the next hour. It is crazy cheap, and fun, and fast. And if you just came off a sprained ankle, you don’t walk from the subway to your office anymore, you just “teleport”.
Velib is going strong?
[memo to myself, proceed with shipping company arrangements to prepare for next shipment of free
Parisian bicycles]
;o)
“I think I read that the Parisian program was ended because of theft – no bikes left.”
Uh, that’s not true. At all. Vélib’ is going strong.
Arkady: You “think” you “read?” Well, it’s not true. Velib is aive and well: http://www.velib.paris.fr/
Given how many bikes of mine have been stolen over the years, I kind of feel like I have been participating in this program for years. ALbeit, one way…
I think I read that the Parisian program was ended because of theft – no bikes left.
> I’m pretty sure the Brooklyn version will not inspire the same awe. 😉
Fuhgedd-awe-boudit!
And you know, I don’t generally use the word “awesome” lightly or colloquially. I actually did mean I was literally in awe of the fact that a program like this could so dramatically and successfully change the fabric of a city’s transportation system within two weeks of launch.
I’m pretty sure the Brooklyn version will not inspire the same awe. 😉
I have seen two things in my life so far that were awesome, the Grand Canyon and a calving glacier in Alaska.
If I were more easily awed, no doubt I’d be happier.