Bloomberg announces NYC bike share will now be delayed at least until March
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Alta Bicycle Share has promised more than they can deliver in planning North America's largest bike share system, but they've pulled it off in Boston and DC so the program should eventually succeed.
If you've been following the story of America's most ambitious bike share plan to date – the installation of 10,000 bikes at more than 400 stations across Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York – you'll know that progress has been bumpy. Originally, the program was timetabled to launch in April 2012, but while we knew last year that Alta Bicycle Share was going to handle the infrastructure, the crucial element of who would pay for it all was missing. The City council was determined no public money would be spent on it; and the Bloomberg administration acceded.
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="430"] Photo courtesy New York City Bike Share.[/caption]
That left some serious sponsor-wrangling to be done. And it wasn't until after the original launch date had passed that the New York ma
