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Chicago, New York discounted most public input in expanding bike systems

  • Written by Greg Griffin, PhD candidate, University of Texas at Austin
Public bikes are meant to complement a city's existing mass transit network, so the location of docking stations is critical.MusikAnimal/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

When New York and Chicago decided to expand their public bike share systems a few years back, city officials wanted to go about it democratically. Using community meetings, workshops and...

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