Tag Archives: biking

Rather hypnotic, isn’t it?

Last month we learned that NYC will join other major cities by launching its own bike sharing system. The program isn’t scheduled to begin until summer, but community boards and the public are getting demonstrations this week. Hit the link for demos near you. (Photo by Dr. Jeff.)

New York City has at last approved a bike-sharing system similar to those in Montreal, Boston, and Washington DC. Hurray! More than 10,000 communal bicycles will flood the city’s streets next summer as part of an ambitious bike-share plan, officials said Wednesday. The program has been billed as a key part of the Bloomberg administration’s plan to make the city’s …

Minneapolis has a groovy public bike sharing system similar to the one I fell in love with in Montreal.

I shouldn’t joke, pretty much everybody I know has had their bike stolen in the last year. Personally, I won’t buy a lock or a chain because that way I won’t be tempted to leave my bike on the street.

Montreal has a fantastic public bike system called Bixi (bike-taxi), in which you can swipe a credit card and take a bike for free for up to 30 minutes. Longer rides start at $1.50/hour and are very reasonable thereafter. You can return to the bike to any of the numerous docking stands around town, making them perfect for short one-way …

Yesterday a couple of hundred (mostly) naked bike riders rode from Williamsburg, Brooklyn to the Christopher Street piers and then to the United Nations as part a protest against BP. Cops made no arrests.

According to this clip’s description, one-third of all trips in Utrecht, Netherlands are made by bicycle. The U.S. average is less than 1%.

Streetsblog notes that as well as the new law requiring NYC office buildings to allow workers to bring their bicycles inside, there’s a new law requiring parking garages to offer a specific number of bicycle parking spaces relative to their car capacities. As you can see, bike rates ain’t cheap. From Gothamist: BicyclesOnly, the Flickr user who took this shot, …

An ugly incident involving a bike messenger and a pedestrian has spurred a heated discussion over on Gothamist and on NYC’s bike enthusiast sites. Apparently the messenger was turning right into a crosswalk where pedestrians had the right of way. What happened next depends on your point of view (and probably, your opinion of bike messengers.) Warning for violence.