City to Solicit Proposals on Bike Sharing (NY Times)

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By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Published: November 22, 2010

The Bloomberg administration is set to move ahead on Tuesday with plans to create a large-scale bike-sharing program that would make hundreds or even thousands of bicycles available for public use throughout New York City — a nimble, novel form of mass transit that has already become mainstream in cities like Washington and Paris.

The city plans to release a solicitation for proposals from companies interested in operating the program, which would allow riders to rent bicycles from kiosks installed across a swath of the city, according to two people who have been briefed on the plan.

The program would probably run on a subscription model, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the plan had not yet been made public.

The introduction of a bike-share program is a long-awaited victory for Janette Sadik-Khan, the city’s transportation commissioner, who has banned cars from parts of Broadway in Midtown and installed more than 250 miles of bicycle-only lanes along major avenues in multiple boroughs ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/nyregion/23bikeside.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

[Nihil]

1. Good luck!

There are a lot more bikes around in London these days, some private
but many are the "Boris-bikes":

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/14808.aspx

(Caveat: I only have a ten minute walk so don't use a bike myself ...
this is just a pedestrian's observation!)