{"id":70,"date":"2011-09-16T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/bike-sharing-program-coming-to-new-york-city-in-2012\/"},"modified":"2021-08-17T08:54:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T12:54:25","slug":"bike-sharing-program-coming-to-new-york-city-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/bike-sharing-program-coming-to-new-york-city-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Sharing Program Coming to New York City in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in New York have announced that the city will finally be home to a bike sharing program beginning in 2012. The bike share will offer New Yorkers and visitors a green alternative to public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The comprehensive program will launch in Manhattan and Brooklyn with tentative plans in place for expansion to other boroughs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The program will be managed by Alta Bicycle Share, which already operates similar programs in Boston, Washington D.C., and Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Annual memberships for the bike share program will run about the average cost of an unlimited monthly MetroCard (currently $104.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The membership allows for unlimited 30-45 minute rentals with graduated fees in place for longer rentals. Visitors to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/cheap-flights\/new-york-city-nyc-new-york-deals\">New York City<\/a> can also sign up for day or weekend passes.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/09\/16\/idUS391867761420110916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Flickr: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/roland\/690446085\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Roland <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in New York have announced that the city will finally be home to a bike sharing program beginning in 2012. The bike share will offer New Yorkers and visitors a green alternative to public transportation. &nbsp; The comprehensive program will launch in Manhattan and Brooklyn with tentative plans in place for expansion to other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98908448,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/98908448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}