Bike-sharing increases the number of trips by bicycle in a city and improves the cycle culture.
There are lots of stories about shortages of available housing, urban farms and a new interest in seeing the city by bicycle.
London Mayor Boris Johnson is to give tandem bicycle based on the city's bike hire scheme as a wedding present to Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Using these streets, I could traverse the entire city on my bicycle.
If you are looking to bike, every quadrant of the city is crawling with bicycle shops, many of which offer rentals.
That software was deemed not ready for prime time last year, when the city and operator Alta Bicycle Share decided to postpone the launch of Citi Bike until 2013.
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City officials and alternative transportation advocates have said bicycle use has surged in recent years, as have the number of tourists who annually visit New York City.
He lived on paved, lighted city streets, and a bicycle ride away were the Asian drugstore and the Armenian grocery store and the corner where black Cubans drank coffee and talked Dodgers baseball.
Racial-awareness training and community policing are de rigueur: if you see somebody trying to get around the city on foot or on a bicycle, they are most likely either insane or from the police.
Over the last five years in particular, cycling has blossomed due to the city's implementation of the 2006 Bicycle Master Plan, a ten-year funded strategy to improve cycling conditions.
In this compact, canal-packed city with 400km of bike lanes and paths, the bicycle is the primary mode of transport, so visiting pedestrians need to watch out for cyclists just as much, if not more, than cars.
Urban kayaking has become a popular alternative to sightseeing by bus or bicycle in several cities throughout the U.S., with tour operators from New York City to Seattle reporting approximately 25% growth in customers in each of the past three years.
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