Big Apple Turning Green, Says DialAFlight
New York's audacious 'Bike Share Scheme' is due to launch next summer. It is hoped tourists, as well as the general public, will be encouraged to adopt the scheme. But are tourists really willing to go 'green'?

LONDON, ENGLAND, December 15, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Next summer the city of New York launches its audacious 'Bike Share Scheme', encouraging New Yorker's to ditch their gas-guzzling automobiles in favour of more environmentally friendly modes of transportation. It is hoped the scheme will help promote New York as an 'innovative, green' city, but will tourists, on holiday in New York, really be willing to pedal their way round the city in order to see those world famous sites?

City officials certainly hope so. Nearly 10,000 bicycles are being made available throughout New York's five districts, as of next summer, and, ostensibly, bike rakes will plague every street corner. The scheme has required gargantuan amounts of planning and investment by city officials and the Department of Transportation- two hundred miles worth of bike lanes have already been allocated.

In order to encourage tourists to adopt the scheme, the bicycles will be rent free for the first 45-minutes of use and each bike rake will provide users with free maps of the city, to help navigate through the vast metropolis.

Commenting on the scheme, a spokesman for DialAFlight, one the UK's leading travel operators, said:

"If you consider just how popular biking schemes are in London and Sydney, you'd have to say that there is definitely a market for bicycle use in major cities, so why couldn't a similar scheme work in New York?"

"One problem the city faces is persuading riders that New York is indeed cycle safe. Whenever you imagine the city's bustling streets, you can't help but envisage mass vehicle traffic jams and congestion. However I'm sure once people learn about the vast infrastructure being put in place, the scheme will prove extremely popular with both local New Yorker's and visiting tourists."

The Department for Transportation hopes to double the amount of bicycles made available to the public by 2015- eventually tripling that number by 2020.

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