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The problem with bike share in NYC is that it is poorly implemented as well as launched poorly as well. My main gripe with it is that within day one bike share in NYC became the largest bike share in the country surpassing DC, Boston and San Francisco, mind these cities are much more smaller than NYC but just as dense. NYC bikeshare should have had a slow rollout which would have been more beneficial also. Another problem is that the bike share in NYC is not public funded and only funded through some sort of crowd sourcing and advertisement of some sort, probably Citibank fees probably go into bike share as well. If bike share was public funded bikes and racks would have been properly maintained during winter months. During the winter plenty of bike racks were covered with snow and never shoveled. Some hours of the day in certain areas its hard to get a bike, and in certain areas racks would be full of bikes and no where for a rider to restack their bike on a rack. Hell some bikes have to be removed and shuffled to other bike stations to keep demand and usage afloat! My suggestion is in these hip areas where citibikes are located that their should be a citibike tax for its residents to maintain bikes, racks and payment kiosks. I think bike share is better implemented for smaller densly populated cites. NYC even though it is dense, its a bit massive for bike share to maintain.
The problem with bike share in NYC is that it is poorly implemented as well as launched poorly as well. My main gripe with it is that within day one bike share in NYC became the largest bike share in the country surpassing DC, Boston and San Francisco, mind these cities are much more smaller than NYC but just as dense. NYC bikeshare should have had a slow rollout which would have been more beneficial also. Another problem is that the bike share in NYC is not public funded and only funded through some sort of crowd sourcing and advertisement of some sort, probably Citibank fees probably go into bike share as well. If bike share was public funded bikes and racks would have been properly maintained during winter months. During the winter plenty of bike racks were covered with snow and never shoveled. Some hours of the day in certain areas its hard to get a bike, and in certain areas racks would be full of bikes and no where for a rider to restack their bike on a rack. Hell some bikes have to be removed and shuffled to other bike stations to keep demand and usage afloat! My suggestion is in these hip areas where citibikes are located that their should be a citibike tax for its residents to maintain bikes, racks and payment kiosks. I think bike share is better implemented for smaller densly populated cites. NYC even though it is dense, its a bit massive for bike share to maintain.
BronxG - You write very thoughtfully. But you would be more effective if you broke a post like this into several paragraphs. The above is very difficult to read.
BronxG - You write very thoughtfully. But you would be moreto efctive if you broke a post like this into several paragraphs. The above is very difficult to read.
Sorry i typed the my response via Android smartphone so please forgive me if I dont use ios. I dont have time or patience to edit through a smartphone.
Sorry i typed the my response via Android smartphone so please forgive me if I dont use ios. I dont have time or patience to edit through a smartphone.
Its got nothing to do with what OS you use. Just start new paragraphs or put breaks in your posts as you type. I haven't read your posts in probably close to two years cause of this.
Its got nothing to do with what OS you use. Just start new paragraphs or put breaks in your posts as you type. I haven't read your posts in probably close to two years cause of this.
Its got nothing to do with what OS you use. Just start new paragraphs or put breaks in your posts as you type. I haven't read your posts in probably close to two years cause of this.
I figure when a person isn't thoughtful enough to use paragraphs they don't have anything worth reading on their mind.
Winter didn't help but the bike racks didn't work in the better weather as well. Lots of stories from people at work who had to go to several different racks to return a bike because the first few didn't work. Also, as you would expect, popular trips left racks depleted at one end and full at the other; forget about taking a bike from Penn Station in the late morning.
Several of us correctly predicted the inevitable unsuitability of the program from the day it was rolled out.
I have nothing against these types of programs in other cities but I knew this one was doomed from the start. And I do confess I'm happy it is failing just because of all the militant people who came to this forum decrying any sort of car use in general.
Gee, who could've possibly guessed this would happen. If they'd just use the common core math, they wouldn't have any "financial and operational challenges."
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