Details Emerge on Future NYC Bike Share

via NYC Bike Share

 

 

NYC Bike Share, the largest bike shar­ing pro­gram in the U.S. is sched­uled to launch this July, just a lit­tle over two months away. It will con­sist of 10,000 bikes and 600 sta­tions located through­out the city.

Although the plan has been in the works for some time, new details have recently been revealed. This past week, 54 of the planned bike sta­tions were revealed by the NYCDOT at a Com­mu­nity Board 4 meet­ing, as well as logis­tics for how the Bike Share would real­is­ti­cally fit into cer­tain busy loca­tions: namely, Penn Sta­tion, Grand Cen­tral, and Port Authority.

To accom­mo­date the swarms of peo­ple that fre­quent these com­muter hotspots, the NYCDOT and Alta Bicy­cle Share have announced that they will increase both the num­ber and size of the sta­tions there. While the stan­dard NYC sta­tion will hold around 30 bikes, Penn Sta­tion will have 180 docks, and Port Author­ity 140.

Accord­ing to Streets­blog, “the most impor­tant sites in New York City’s bike-share sys­tem are, fit­tingly, super-sized. With the biggest tran­sit sys­tem in the coun­try, it’s only appro­pri­ate to give those rid­ers the biggest bike-share sta­tions for the last mile of their trip.”

Since the announce­ment of the NYC Bike Share last year, NYCDOT and Alta Bicy­cle Share have made efforts to engage the com­mu­nity in plan­ning the pro­gram by hold­ing demon­stra­tions, open houses, and work­shops. You can read more about these com­mu­nity engage­ment meth­ods in one of our pre­vi­ous posts here.