Tag: Bikeshare
The Citi Bike program has been a boon to New Yorkers and for the city’s congested streets, but an audit has found that there’s “shoddy oversight” over the program and that the bikes suffer from “poor maintenance.” A Friday press release from New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office stated that Citi Bike program operator […]
Despite impressive first-year numbers and a ridership that’s unafraid of a little cold weather, Citi Bike needs cash. According to the Wall Street Journal, the bikeshare program is losing money, and leaders at the organization are hoping to raise tens of millions of dollars to rescue it. Part of the problem is that long-term Citi Bike passes […]
In the first major victory for the whiners in their ongoing, inexplicable battle against bike share, a group of West Village residents have convinced the Department of Transportation to move a docking station that was originally positioned in front of their co-op building. DOT workers moved the station from the southeast corner of Barrow and […]
