NYC Risks ‘Bikelash’ as 10,000 Rental Cycles Hit Streets
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Tom Holaday adjusted the seat for his 6-foot-4-inch frame, gripped the handlebars and took for a spin one of the thousands of blue bicycles that will begin appearing on New York City streets next month.
“It will change the way we think about streets,” said Holaday, 59, a computer programmer on his lunch break after testing the wheels in his business suit. He was in Lower Manhattan’s Battery Park yesterday for a demonstration of New York’s bicycle-sharing program, which will become the biggest in the U.S. when the rollout is complete in early 2013.