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Results
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 6, 2008
Results of the NYC Bicycle Parking Survey Now Available
See Detailed Results 
Bicycle parking survey has helped to engage the public in New York City’s bicycle planning process and is being used by city agencies to better serve the needs of the city’s bicyclists.
Two Hunter College graduate students, Jason Nu and Wallace Murray, created the NYC Bicycle Parking Survey to understand the bicycle riding patterns and parking needs of the city’s cyclists. The survey, conducted during autumn of 2007, is now complete.
The survey’s findings are being incorporated into the city’s planning processes. In recent months, the city has emerged as an advocate for bicyclists, and appears committed to creating bicycle infrastructure improvements. In partnership with the Department of City Planning’s Transportation Division, Nu and Murray developed the survey in order to better integrate the public’s voice into this decision making process. To accomplish this, the researchers launched a website - NYCbikerackstudy.com – complete with an online survey and maps to share the accumulating results. The survey asked a variety of questions related to respondents’ bicycle parking habits and needs.
Over eight hundred people participated in the survey. Thanks to this tremendous response, a rich data set was compiled and analyzed. Based on this information, Nu and Murray developed a set of conclusions and recommendations on how city agencies can better serve New York’s bicycle riding public.
Nu and Murray concluded that the public is very eager to engage in bicycle parking issues and that there is an extremely high demand for more secure and covered bicycle parking, especially at workplaces, transit hubs and parks. Based on these conclusions, the researchers developed the following general recommendations: the city should install more bike parking near transit hubs and parks, provide covered spaces for longer term parking, encourage workplaces and residential buildings to offer more indoor parking, and that coordination should be improved between city agencies such as the Department of City Planning, the Department of Transportation, the MTA and the Parks Department.
Nu and Murray presented these findings to the Department of Transportation as well as the Department of City Planning. The DOT will use the data on long-duration parking demand to select locations for the installation of dozens of sheltered bike racks beginning in the spring of 2008. The Department of City Planning has its own plans for utilizing the results. According to Jack Schmidt, Director of the Transportation Division, “The data will be used as inputs for specific projects that we are currently working on - for example we are beginning a NYCyclist Net project that will map out all of the on- and off-street bicycle parking in the city. We are also going to be changing the zoning resolution to include bicycle parking requirements and the data will inform this process.”
Contact: Wallace Murray and Jason Nu
Questions@nycbikerackstudy.com
To learn more about Hunter College, CUNY, which offers Master’s degrees in Geography and in Urban Planning, visit: www.hunter.cuny.edu
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