The carshare program is more than doubling in size in the Bronx.
As part of a second wave of installations, the program is coming to 46 locations in the borough. Since each carshare location includes two parking spots, 92 Bronx parking spaces are being converted for the program, making a total of 130 carshare spots boroughwide.
Run by the city Department of Transportation (DOT), the program allows people to rent cars off the street using an app on their phone. The cars, which are rented through carshare companies like Zipcar, are kept in reserved parking spaces when they’re not in use. The program began as a 2018-2020 pilot, and after DOT deemed it successful enough to make permanent, a first wave of the expansion took place in February.
Now in a second wave, the agency has been transitioning 279 public parking spots across the city into carshare-only spots last week and this week.
In the February installations, just 12 of 80 spots citywide were put in the Bronx, specifically in the Pelham Bay and Westchester Square sections.
Before that, as part of the pilot, there were 20 on-street parking spots in Parkchester and Soundview, as well as 10 spots in municipal lots: four spaces in the Belmont Municipal Parking Field, three in the Jerome-190th Street Municipal Garage and three in the White Plains Road Municipal Parking Field. All of the spots that were installed during the pilot remain except for the Belmont spots, a DOT spokesperson told the Bronx Times.
In a map created by the Bronx Times, the carshare locations, provided by DOT, are color-coded to show whether they were installed as part of the pilot (orange for curbside spots and purple for municipal lots), first wave (brown) or second wave (blue), to show how the program has grown within the borough.
While the carshare spots in the pilot and first wave were relatively confined to certain parts of the Bronx, this latest wave scattered the spots across parts of the borough that hadn’t seen the program…
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