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Plenty of persons ride bikes in NYC and yes even in Manhattan both for work, commuting and pleasure. Numbers are growing since Bloomberg's administration carved up the streets for dedicated bike lanes. The one on the Westside highway in particular is used by commuters from Westchester area as well as from New Jersey.
And as you typed this, Citibike is in the red.
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Some neighborhoods are already overburdened with terrible parking and near constant tv production, which also eats up blocks of parking spots at a time. A place like the West Village, where parking was already tight due to tv/film production, had a bunch of Citibike racks dropped down making the situation even worse. In that situation, something has to give. It's also troubling that a private company was granted exclusive access to city streets for their bike racks. Their access makes Citibike a sort of de facto bike sharing monopoly.
There just should be bike racks everywhere. You could buy a used junky bike and use it to ride your 1/2 mile or mile to the subway station, or several miles to your place of work. That would be a much simpler solution than this ridiculously complicated bike share program.
If the city put up bike racks which would be cheaper than the citibikes, you could.
No you couldn't, you're not going to take your bike in on a sardine can NJ Transit or LIRR train. You're not going to take it with your colleagues when you hop a cab to a meeting and then go your separate ways. You're also not going to take it in when it's pouring rain in the morning and leave with beautiful sunshine in the evening
No you couldn't, you're not going to take your bike in on a sardine can NJ Transit or LIRR train. You're not going to take it with your colleagues when you hop a cab to a meeting and then go your separate ways. You're also not going to take it in when it's pouring rain in the morning and leave with beautiful sunshine in the evening
I suspect that the number of people using Citi Bikes who are commuters on NJT, LIRR or Metro North is tiny. More likely, it is someone living on Avenue C who needs to get to the 2nd Avenue subway.
I suspect that the number of people using Citi Bikes who are commuters on NJT, LIRR or Metro North is tiny. More likely, it is someone living on Avenue C who needs to get to the 2nd Avenue subway.
It's tiny percentage-wise, but they are actually some of the largest users of citibike. The reason is that people getting off a commuter train and then need to head uptown or downtown would have to buy a metrocard on top of their train fare. The bikeshare program just allows them to hop on and off at minimal cost. The racks by Penn Station and GCT empty out fast in the morning rush hours
I saw this coming by a longshot. I notice that bikeshare is more effective in warmer climate cities. The winter may have hampered bikeshare in NYC. Its time for bikeshare to expand uptown and Queens.
no it is time for them to pack up and get out of town-- those bikes are a pita on the streets of nyc
Citibike is a miracle worker, it's managed to unite everyone on City Data AGAINST it lol
I'm a big supporter of it, although honestly I've never used it myself. On several occasions I thought about using it, but a $10 per day fee is too much not to just go use the bus or subway instead. $30 for a week is just as unreasonable. I'd take a $95 annual membership above other options but even then I probably wouldn't use it enough. If you have a citi credit card by the way they give you a $15 rebate on the annual membership
It's tiny percentage-wise, but they are actually some of the largest users of citibike. The reason is that people getting off a commuter train and then need to head uptown or downtown would have to buy a metrocard on top of their train fare. The bikeshare program just allows them to hop on and off at minimal cost. The racks by Penn Station and GCT empty out fast in the morning rush hours
And that's one of the problems. It's very expensive, apparently, to move bikes from one station to the other to account for demand. The other problem is that it only works with good weather. Perhaps the bikes should be warehoused from Thanksgiving until the end of March. I saw the chart. It obviously was a very bad winter for the bike share program. Almost no daily use rentals.
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