Mayor Bloomberg’s bike-rental plan is riding high.
A Quinnipiac Poll out today shows New Yorkers overwhelmingly back the city’s proposal to set up 600 bike rental stations for 10,000 two-wheelers by next summer.
The survey found residents support the plan 72-23 percent, with 59 percent saying they want a rental lot in their neighborhood, compared to 34 percent who do not.
Manhattanites are most in favor of the idea, with support for it topping out at 78 percent and 17 percent opposed. Staten Islanders are less open, supporting it by a 52-42 margin.
The rental lots would be established south of 79th Street in Manhattan and in parts of Brooklyn, where cycling for transportation is most popular.
Of the 1,068 registered voters polled between Oct. 12 and 16, 45 percent said they would rent a bike when the lots are set up.
Quinnipiac Poll director Mickey Carroll pointed out that while 58 percnet of New Yorkers like bike lanes, which have proliferated around the city in recent years under Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, only 31 percent think the lanes are widely used.
Participants in the bike-share plan would pay up to $100 a year for an unlimited number of trips of up to 45 min.