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DOT Announces Expansion of ‘Successful’ Car-Share Pilot Program
Hammerin' Hank: The city is expanding and making permanent a car-share pilot program to help break New York's car culture and its dependence on private car ownership, DOT Commissioner Hank Gutman said.
April 23, 2021
Five Questions With An Expert Studying NYC’s Car-Share Pilot
Is New York City's car-share pilot working? In one short — and very premature — word: yes.
December 12, 2018
Newsflash: New York City Curb Space Was Privatized Long Before Car-Share Companies Came Along
Most New York City curb space has been off-limits to most New Yorkers for generations.
May 31, 2018
DOT Will Test Out Public Parking Spots Dedicated to Car-Share
Half of the spaces will be in municipal parking facilities and half will be on-street.
December 12, 2016
Report: Access to Car-Share and Bike-Share Is Worse in Communities of Color
Car-share and bike-share services are making it easier to go without owning a car in American cities, but access to "shared-use" systems remains limited in communities of color compared to majority-white neighborhoods, according to a new analysis from the Shared Use Mobility Center [PDF].
July 27, 2016
Levine’s Car2Go Bill Needs Cold Hard Data on Company’s Traffic Impact
This afternoon, Council Member Mark Levine will introduce a bill [PDF 1, 2] requiring DOT to give car-share companies designated on-street parking spaces, potentially for a price. Guaranteed parking would boost car sharing, Levine says, and reduce car ownership. Trouble is, there's not much data to say whether or not car-share in New York is reducing vehicle ownership or just encouraging more driving.
August 13, 2015
Auto Industry Analyst Predicts Decline of the Two-Car Household
Bailey Mareu, 30, and her husband were looking for ways to save money after she left her job to help run the family business in Lawrence, Kansas, two years ago.
December 2, 2014
Car2Go Launches in Brooklyn — Users Will Have to Pay at Parking Meters
Point-to-point car-share service Car2Go will launch next month across the western third of Brooklyn. One of the questions hanging over the launch was whether the company would pay the city to let its customers park for free at metered spaces. Now we have an answer: DOT will not change its parking rules to accommodate Car2Go, whose customers will have to pay to use metered spaces. In areas with a high concentration of meters, the company will secure private off-street parking for its users.
September 26, 2014
Point-to-Point Car-Share Service Car2Go Getting Ready to Launch in Brooklyn
Car2Go, a subsidiary of automotive giant Daimler AG, is hiring staff and preparing to launch in Brooklyn after more than a year of negotiations with the city, bringing point-to-point car-share to NYC for the first time. Car2Go will also be the first car-share company in the city to store its vehicles on the street, though the specifics of the arrangement with the city, such as the price the company will pay for curb access, have yet to be made public.
August 27, 2014
The Convergence Between New Technologies and the Decline in Driving
According to a spate of recent studies, Millennials -- a bigger generation than the Baby Boomers -- are driving less than their parents did. But the underlying reasons are a matter of some dispute. Will younger Americans start happily motoring again once the economy is really humming, or is a lasting generational shift underway?
October 1, 2013