BOROUGHWIDE — NYC DOT has begun major expansion of on-street carshare, and is working with three carshare companies – Zipcar, Getaround, and Truqit – to deploy their shared vehicles at new locations, Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez announced on Tuesday, Feb. 7. The expansion comes after a successful five-year pilot program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 7% and personal car ownership miles by 6%, with installation of the first 80 of hundreds of new curbside parking spaces reserved for carshare vehicles starting immediately, in Brooklyn (Bay Ridge, Bushwick, Brownsville, and Sunset Park), Queens, and the Bronx, with a focus on equitable distribution.
Although the newly-reserved spaces will greatly curtail parking for other essential vehicles, the DOT said that it engaged all community boards covered by the initial expansion and incorporated feedback where possible, and that the decisions were made based on knowledge of customer demand and household demographic data.
