Are you sick of walking long distances when you could get from point A to point B faster on a bike?
Well, the Department of Transportation’s Bike Share in NYC program, due out the summer of 2012, will hopefully get you where you need to go with speed and ease.
The program, which will put 10,000 new public bicycles for rent at 600 stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, will be a network of self-service docking stations, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Bike Share in NYC will be run by Alta Bicycle Share, will be funded by private sponsorship (not taxpayers) and membership will be less expensive than a monthly MetroCard.
The stations will be have kiosks with a touch-screen, a map of the Bike Share system and docks where the two-wheelers will be locked until you rent one.
Before the stations are placed, the DOT is asking the public to suggest locations of the shareable rides.
What locations in Park Slope could benefit from the Bike Share program? To suggest a location, click here.
Make sure to vote in the poll below. If a location is not listed, tell us where you think Bike Share docks should be in our neighborhood.
http://a841-tfpweb.nyc.gov/bikeshare/timeline/ http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/01/26/starting-next-week-you-can-help-choose-bike-share-station-locations/ From the Streetsblog post. Didn't see a date for Park Slope, but that doesn't mean there won't be one. Next Tuesday, the city’s first bike-share planning workshop will take place. Hosted by Manhattan Community Board 4, State Senator Tom Duane and Assembly Member Richard Gottfried, the event will be an important opportunity for people who live or work in Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen to help shape this significant addition to the New York City streetscape. The difference between a bike-share system where most stations are on the sidewalk and one where most stations are in the curbside lane may be determined at these meetings, for example.