Do you want to develop a healthier lifestyle?
Do you want to embrace green living?
Do you want to help save the planet?
Do you want to lose weight?
Try the city sponsored "prescription" being followed by Parisians, Londoners, Berliners, Brazilians, the Dutch, and very soon... New Yorkers!
Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and a group of elected officials announced the big plan for public bikes around NYC. Some key facts are:
Within the service area, which will stretch from the Upper West Side and Upper East Side to Bed Stuy and Greenpoint,
- New Yorkers will have access to 10,000 public bikes at about 600 stations.
- Annual memberships will cost under $100. Members will be able to make trips of up to 30 minutes at no charge.
- The stations will receive input from local communities, and the City Council will hold hearings on the program.
- The system must operate without public subsidy.
All told, we’re talking about a system that will address several longstanding and disparate transportation-related problems faced by New York City residents: the long walk to the train station or bus stop that could be a short bike ride, the barriers to cycling posed by fear of theft and lack of storage space, the difficulty of getting across town in Manhattan.
The VELO stations and public parking for bikes in Paris
The iconic and very inspiring bikes found all over in London.
The creative parking spots for bikes in Old Amsterdam... 
The public bikes, available for rent, all over Rio de Janeiro.
