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.
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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