Farther, Faster and No Sweat: Bike-Sharing and the E-Bike Boom
Social-distancing, sustainability and accessibility helped accelerate e-biking during the pandemic, and the trend is showing up in urban bike-sharing programs.
Over the next five years, Indego’s Philadelphia bike-sharing system will double in size, making half the fleet electric.Credit.Jasmine Alston/Indego
By Elaine Glusac
March 2, 2021
As with all bicycles during the pandemic, electric bikes, or those with battery-powered motors to handle propulsion, boomed. The market research firm NPD Group said sales of e-bikes grew 145 percent in 2020 compared to 2019, outpacing sales of all bikes, which were up 65 percent.
“Bike categories that catered to families and recreational and newer riders grew better than more performance-oriented bikes,” said Dirk Sorenson, a sports industry analyst at NPD, adding that e-bikes “overcome challenges like big hills or going on a longer ride than a typical bike.”
Pothole problems widespread across New York City
Pothole problems
It s that time of year when the winter weather starts damaging the roads and drivers pay the price of hitting potholes.
NEW YORK - It s that time of year when the winter weather starts damaging the roads and we pay the price of hitting potholes.
That couldn t be more true along a westbound stretch of the Grand Central Parkway in East Elmhurst, from La Guardia Airport to Exit 5.
Get breaking news alerts in the FOX5NY News app. Download for FREE! I was coming on the Grand Central. I skipped one and fell into a bigger one and it popped, said Jessica Bermial, who blew out her front driver-side tire, trying to dodge what looks more like the surface of Mars than a highway.
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NEW YORK, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced that cities can now apply for Asphalt Art Initiative grants, which will provide as many as 20 U.S. cities up to $25,000 each for projects that use art and design to improve street safety, revitalize public spaces, and engage residents of their communities. This program, announced at the Bloomberg CityLab 2021 global cities summit, is inspired by work done to improve pedestrian safety and revitalize New York City streets during Michael R. Bloomberg s tenure as Mayor from 2002-2013 and the work of Bloomberg Philanthropies pro bono consulting arm Bloomberg Associates.
Hi friends and new readers, welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point A to Point B.
In last week’s newsletter, I described some of the changes coming to TechCrunch’s transportation coverage, including “market maps.” These articles, which will always run in Extra Crunch, focus on a particular slice of the transportation industry, along with other mobility-related analysis.
The first of these took a deep dive into the solid state battery industry. As Mark Harris reported: “For the last decade, developers of solid state battery systems have promised products that are vastly safer, lighter and more powerful. Those promises largely evaporated into the ether leaving behind a vapor stream of disappointing products, failed startups and retreating release dates.”
BELLEROSE, Queens (WABC) Tropical Storm Isaias toppled thousands of trees in the Tri-State area, many of which had been cleaned up.
But nearly three months after the storm, an 86-year-old homeowner in Queens was still left with a mess in his front yard, That s when he called 7 On Your Side s Nina Pineda.
Entire slabs of concrete were suspended in mid-air in front of Pete Brennan s home by the hulking roots of a century-old ash tree that was toppled by the storm back in August. It s dangerous, should ve been fixed a long time ago, Monica Brennan, Pete s daughter-in-law, said.
The hulking tree towered over the Brennan s home since the family moved to Bellerose in the mid-60s.