This week (July 7-11) The Forum for Urban Design and Storefront for Art & Archtecture are teaming-up to encourage New Yorkers to imagine what bike-sharing in New York City could look like. According to the NY Bike-share Project Website:
"The New York Bike-Share Project consists of three parts: The Experiment: Twenty bicycles will be available for free 30-minute rentals between Storefront for Art and Architecture (97 Kenmare Street) and a roving, remote location. The Exhibition: A review of eight successful bike-share programs in European cities will be on view at Storefront. The Charette: The Forum For Urban Design will facilitate a public imagining of a future bike-share program in New York."
The agenda is as follows:
July 9, 6pm: Richard Grasso from Clear Channel Adshel on Barcelona, Stockholm and Oslo
July 10, 6pm: Josh Squire from JC Decaux on Paris, Lyon and Vienna; Carlos Pujol from Cemusa on Pamplona
July 11, 6pm: Charette results and reception
Bike-sharing in New York would be a similar feat as it is in Paris, with equally dramatic effects. Stay tuned.
1 comment:
There's bike sharing and there's bike sharing. When there are enough bikes and stations that you can put your bike back into the pool between trips, a bike can be used many times per day. The NYC event is more like an art happening that symbolizes bike sharing. As such, it's a great thing -- and hopefully, a harbinger of the arrival, some day, of bike sharing in NYC.
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