NYC Gets a Huge Bike-Sharing Network, Largest in North America, Thanks to Janette Sadik-Khan (Citiba
NYC Gets a Huge Bike-Sharing Network, Largest in North America, Thanks to Janette Sadik-Khan (Citibank & MasterCard Funding It)
May 12, 2012 By Zachary Shahan
Source: Clean Technica (http://s.tt/1bvSx)
As someone in love with 3rd-generation bike-sharing systems before the large majority of Americans knew anything about them, I’ve been eagerly anticipating and covering NYC’s huge bike-sharing plans for years. This could transform NYC. Bike sharing did so in Paris, and NYC’s program is to be a similar size. Additionally, biking in NYC has been booming under the leadership of Janette Sadik-Khan (Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation), see there’s a flame to be fueled with this new program.
A Quinnipiac University poll last October found that 72% of New Yorkers support the program, Transportation Alternatives notes.
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“We’re getting an entirely new 24/7 transportation network ,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. “We are getting an entirely new transportation network without spending any taxpayer money. Who thought that that could be done?”
The system will have 10,000 bikes at 600 stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
More:
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/12/janette-sadik-khan-gets-nyc-a-huge-bike-sharing-network-largest-in-north-america-citibank-mastercard-funding-it/
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