Hoboken May See Bike Sharing in Town
The city is asking its residents to fill out a survey about the possibility of bike sharing.
Over the last few years, the city has added miles of bikelanes around town and has tried to improve pedestrian and biker-safety in Hoboken.
Now, the city wants to bring a bike sharing program to Hoboken and Jersey City in a partnership with the county. The Mile Square already has a car sharing program, Corner Cars. A bycicle sharing program would essentially work the same, with stations around town where bikes can be parked and picked up.
Major cities like Paris, Dublin and Boston have launched bike sharing programs.
The city is asking residents to fill out a survey on its website to see how many people would use the program and would like to see it in Hoboken.
Would you use a bike sharing program in town?
Hobbs
4:05 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
One only has to look at the large numbers of bikes at the PATH station to see that many in Hoboken have already embraced bikes.
Also nice to see the County being more proactive.
Lance
8:23 am on Thursday, January 26, 2012
I do like the idea, but I would love to read something about how we are going to clean our town and start fining people for dog crap and littering. The value of Hoboken keep going down as the streets get nastier and nastier every day.
Hobokeneer
10:28 am on Friday, January 27, 2012
Bike sharing works in European cities. It's great that Hoboken could be a leader in bike sharing in the US. This is what we want from city government, being proactive, creative, and working for us.