Bike Share Explained 

Wnyc is supported by freelancers insurance company the social purpose insurance company providing group rate health plans to members of freelancers union more information is available at freelancers union i listened brian where you're listening to wnyc on demand podcasts streaming mp3 downloads available when you want to listen to wnyc and itunes are him all his life share coming to your neighborhood eventually it might just be the answer as the new program in new york city will be phased in starting the summer so with us now to talk about how it's going to work with everything you wanted to know about the bike share program but having it learned is andrea bernstein director of public radio transportation nation project and senior correspondent for wnyc hey andrea ryan and listeners are found to rope in right from the start here as you anticipate this bike share program and more bicycles on the streets certainly midtown and perhaps wherever you are gives call with your thoughts and with your questions to want to four three three wnyc not a pledge line we want asking for money on the air two one two four three three nine six nine two so doing of the actual inception date not specifically although the end of july so that sin and the helmet do we know how many will ever let me go right to the issue that seems to be accessing people the cost of the class is one of the issues that is thereafter really been much cute over on practitioners website which we had our most commented posts ever now how much to the bancshares costing at step four record the new york yearly membership will be ninety five dollars a year with that you get forty five minutes of free riding and after that you start to pay for the next half hour so for the first act after forty five minutes but that was thirty seventy five minutes you get get into fifty and then four hundred fifteen minutes you have to pay nine dollars and goes up from there it's pretty severe the idea being they want back within forty five minute right because this is for commutes in town this is not shadowed by to go riding on the north county trail unless just write a fairly around the central park loop were along the west side highway for purely recreational purposes with the cities will be hoping that will be used for are seeing my a you might want to go from our studios here on varick street over to union square which is very difficult to get to on public transportation so they're hoping instead of technique have yet in haryana top on a bike that were we take about ten minutes so that is to be hoped for use now in some cities where his bike sharing washington dc people want either brought to think that they were dancing like that they don't want to be riding around the city streets event people want will join bike share and this is a discussion of people were having this forty five minutes and not to get from your house and probably for the initial rollout for most of the places you want to go is the one the expanded park slope or the westside eastside question is can you take your commute with next question is how to set up a structure compared to other cities that have deutsche welle in most ways you slice new york's bike share is the highest in the world that we could find now there's an exception on the clinton a minute that the ninety five dollars yearly membership is higher than most other us cities which tend to be around eighty dollars unethical this isn't not open year-round in washington is that boston is not and minneapolis is not denver is not a pleasant winter as though there is such hard exactly compare button on new york is higher than london higher than paris the day rate is higher by a few dollars i and the usage fees are higher particularly when it comes to the daily rates electrical rest would get so you and the daily rate is nine ninety five and then after the first half an hour you pay four dollars and so thirty minutes for a the next half-hour one hour total four dollars negative thirteen dollars and is it a very high rate notice he says for annual members get forty five minutes free which is more than a lot of cities and that's true so that it hard to exactly compare apples two one two four three three wnyc with anything you want to know i say that new york's coming bike share program map in port washington yonder university hello and him and i'm not going to be huge problem like what the members liability are not good bought me on the bike the mining and a bottle of water and all of you we'll bring this to the city doesn't want to do that and that's why they have docking stations and labor three blocks we have the maps of of where they are on our transportation nation website to look at than the extent that they really want you when you are not using the right not to lock it up on the euclid they want you to put in a docking station so you're finished with it now you do have i is a thousand dollars to put on hold on your credit card and i have that right i don't i'm sure someone will correct me an instant on hold on that but there are procedures for reporting staffs and what they said new york city event in the us it isn't even most of the foreign cities they worked out the kinks on this because they've put gps is in the bike instinct is there much harder to strip than mister average personal bike would be and in most of the other cities that all this is an extra theft problems have any problems like mexico city where you might think otherwise did you say every three blocks is not the other really really close together in one area so it gave them bikes for the first phase of the rollout will be in williamsburg greenpoint downtown brooklyn for greene and clinton hill and in manhattan below fifty ninth street also long island city is a series that thing is no subway service to greenpoint that could really should be in our transit game changer for them because suddenly they can get to the seven and making it to be jeered now and you start getting into that really an actual suit difference and in with the transit desert and in bed starting on wnyc hello hello brian so good to hear you talk about a subject near and dear to my heart and i'm a cyclist and we know in the viking meeting new york and waiting eagerly for bike share rollout and the governor that i really forgot that at first i started yesterday but i will say once again illegally where it says where the location is your house near your place of work closely frequent and to have all the maps on the transportation nation with direct our homepage to did one say anything about it then i'm not your excited about it so we i'm a member of application alternatives brooklyn community and we've been saying this is going to be a huge game changer not just because more people will be riding the bikes themselves ten thousand people per day probably could be many times more that amount of available bike but if you say fifty thousand hundred thousand people riding the bike in the city of new york even just a small percentage of those are going to realize a wise thereby clean here but no bike lane there was this street wonderful in this treat gary and dangerous then we hope they will in turn reach out to their elected officials and continue pressing for improved safer bicycle infrastructure is going to see them really awesome the moabites is in the change the political landscape in the past to make the bike lanes no of the bolan user-friendly in and and and safe with respect to the cost i think that that is an outcome that the cities of the manager number of couple years of that education commissioner janette icon said on this show that one of the things you want to do was build bike lanes all the way up the upper east side and the battery or harlem in a dance of bike share now there's a lot of bike lanes going in some of the more ambitious i claim goals have not yet been instituted and they think that there was assertive women in their sixties of decision-making on the subject after the bike share program men will work out those other problems now having said that we're also hearing from a lot of people who were like what i read than a because you hear all these crazy torres in nagano the streets in new york so confusing anyway so there is a lot of anxiety as well about all these new bikes and that's really important to reflect and i think a lot of nonblack writers have some trepidations about this new army of bicycles that presumably is to start showing up at all these dense areas so miriam in greenwich village is somebody who i think is to express some of this million thank you for calling it time and i call my turn i don't some way of enforcing the your bike share use two two to obey the bike rule the traffic rule my mode of transportation is pedestrian and especially my neighborhood bicycle riders are that are not very very good about following the traffic relevant i don't stop for red lights and ninety and stuff like sunsets to send that you'll probably not every single biker as well as most of you can say that most likewise do follow the rules but it only takes a few and this just a small percentage know people walk around in fear of the bike riders whether they walk around you because i think at this point in new york city for many many people that made that may be true although in elders hundreds of people that your dye testing the diet that you know because of automobiles and actually was there trying to get the number the nypd yesterday tracking bike on pedestrian crashes so i would be looking at that but it is something the feeling of the bikes unless predictably i would argue that probably in many cases they are because people are not used to them and select this to the point you were making about if you have more bikes in a more predictable and least of all have you come to expect cars on the streets and everybody's kind of going through kind of that adjustment to expect bikes one thing that we do now from washington where this has been going for over a year now is that these bikes are there being there heavy you can't really go that fast on them so they have tracked in washington the crash involving a bike share bikes and actually found them to be violating fewer traffic laws and laughs and you know in getting involved in less crashes if your crashes then regular bikes just because they can't move that one more call before you run out of time for the segment had in brooklyn wnyc had in mind i don't know and i wanted a united meaning to bring into the degree to be greeted as we find we can centralize auditing of utilizing the bikes are used the system of the abbot of montréal and new people talk about a half hour forty five and is not enough time you you really are only riding the bike for a much shorter donohue going to it you want to use it to undergo from now on that as a neighborhood to another tenant in a café you don't need the bike while you're in the café he rides a bike for fifteen minutes you get off that you dock it and then you will say i think that is really what the city is trying to emphasize that you know if you have a sixteen year ten minute walk to a transit stop you would use it for that if you live on the far west as far as he sized fdr drive that you would use it for that one of the things it's been a big challenge in the other cities washington london that their system barcelona such configure out of one-way kits in barcelona for example there is a part of the city that's racially and i found people would ride your bikes down and take the bus up so all the buses would congregate down the hill in london it had to do wizard of where their transits to the train station where conditions are and your people to going downtown and leaving them there i during the day in washington the biggest use of bike sure was during the earth quake last year because the metro was running it in a very slow leave that streets were in complete gridlock and as a result of bikes were much the quickest way to get around then did you make out it was gone so that it could be a big challenge new york is making sure that all of the bikes are balanced so that when you go to all the stations you can actually find a bike i bike share program coming to new york city in late july transportation nation is on its with its director andrea bernstein can people read more about the bike share program transportation nation i guess that my thoughts up thank you andrea one of the places you might want to write the sandbox is to some of new york's tiny museums and regular start a series of this program coming up next that can last through next week about new york's tiny museums that is to say some of the city 's lesser known gems around town stay with us.

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