New York City’s public bicycle sharing program adds an affordable and convenient new option to New York City’s menu of transportation choices. Bike share gives New Yorkers the option to easily extend their reach by grabbing a public-use bike from a local kiosk and dropping it off at another one at the end of the trip. Transportation Alternatives championed this program and works to organize local communities to win bike share stations for their neighborhoods.

Beginning in the summer of 2012, New York will roll out 10,000 public use bikes at 600 automated docking stations around Manhattan and Brooklyn - and that’s just Phase 1 of this ambitious program. Alta Bicycle Share, the country’s leading bike share vendor, will run the program in New York which will soon be the biggest bike share system in North America. By offering the option to become members for a day, week, month or year, people will be able to use the bikes with ease in a way that makes the most sense individually. An annual membership with the program will cost less than a monthly Metrocard, and members will have unlimited access to bikes for trips under 45 minutes.