Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alta, bike share, Citibike, High speed rail, Hong Kong, Jay Walder, NYC
City officials had refused to greenlight hikes in the program unless new management was brought in.
Walder brings decades of management experience to the system, including two stints at the MTA and Londons public transport system.
He was most recently the head of Hong Kongs subway system.His time there was marred by what was perceived has his poor handling of a high-speed rail project between the island and mainland China, and he was forced to leave a year before his contract expired.
via EXCLUSIVE: Former MTA head Jay Walder will be named Citi Bike boss: sources – NY Daily News.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alta, bike share, Citi, Citibike, NYC, urban cycling
Keep your eye on all this weirdness.
REQX Ventures, a real estate company affiliated with Related Companies, along with Equinox, will buy Alta Bicycle Share, the company that manages the city’s bike-share program.REQX aims to double Citi Bike’s 6,000-bike fleet, according to Capital NY, and will be allowed to raise the rental fees.
via REQX Ventures | Citi Bike Cost | Related Companies.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Andrew Critchlow, Great Britain, Road.cc, Stevenson, twitter threats, UK
Stevenson freaks out this other fellow Critchlow, who then decides to make an even bigger stink.
Mr Stevenson, who has worked for a wide range of cycling publications during a lengthy career in journalism, objected to suggestions in the piece that some cyclists were as much to blame for problems on the roads as motorists.Taking to his Twitter account, Mr Stevenson wrote: “Can someone please just have Andrew Critchlow taken out and shot? Thx.”
Within hours of the comment being posted, Mr Critchlow, a business journalist, who has represented Great Britain in cycling road races, had been bombarded with hundreds of threatening messages.
via Police investigate alleged death threat from cycling journalist – Telegraph.
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