Improving bike economy

[KLizotte]

Nice article about the increasing “biking economy”:

http://83degreesmedia.com/features/bike060413.aspx

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[KelOnWheels]

“New York City has gotten a lot of well-deserved credit for developing over 250 miles of bikes lanes since 2006 and creating a bike share program, which launched on May 27th with 10,000 bikes spread among 600 stations. Now cities such as Philadelphia, Tampa, Detroit, D.C. and Pittsburgh are following its lead by adding more bike infrastructure.”

Boy, I hope we get one of those bike share things one day!

[PotomacCyclist]

Hmm, I thought it would be a couple years before journalists and writers started reporting that NYC had the first bikeshare system in North America.

But at least the author did describe Capital Bikeshare later in the article. Probably copied and pasted that part, and didn’t realize that it seems to contradict the earlier paragraph.

[bobco85]

New York City has gotten a lot of well-deserved credit for developing over 250 miles of bikes lanes since 2006 and creating a bike share program, which launched on May 27th with 10,000 bikes spread among 600 stations. Now cities such as Philadelphia, Tampa, Detroit, D.C. and Pittsburgh are following its lead by adding more bike infrastructure.

I think there’s a misunderstanding here. They are stating that Philadelphia, Tampa, Detroit, DC, and Pittsburgh are following NYC’s lead, but only in the addition of bike infrastructure like the 250+ miles of bike lanes, not in the creation of a bikeshare system. However, the way in which they stated this may lead people to believe that NYC created a bikeshare system first.

That said, I fully expect people to refer to NYC’s bikeshare as the world’s premier bikeshare system, even if they said later in the article that, “There are currently about 30 U.S. systems, with DC’s Capital Bike Share the largest.”

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