Those who are looking forward to the launch of New York’s bike share program finally have a date to start counting down to. Though the Department of Transportation is only officially saying the program will begin sometime this month, a source within the Citi Bike organization told Crain’s it will launch Memorial Day weekend, about two and a half weeks from now.
Registration has been open since April 15, when the city logged thousands of memberships in the first 12 hours. Bike share’s initial rollout will include 6,000 bikes at some 330 stations. Conveniently, the city just released its annual map of bike lanes, so if you plan on riding this month, be sure to grab one.
And there they are. The Citi Bike program has been launched, with 850 of 6,000 bikes in the stations as of this morning. Here's a map of the stations, right here. For now, the bikes are only available to people with memberships. Earlier this month, this bikeshare program reached 10,000 annual members. Welcome to the Bike…
Ben Fried over at Streetsblog has essentially audited a recent audit on Citi Bike oversight by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer's Office and has found that it is inaccurate, reporting, "Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office took so long to produce an audit of Citi Bike maintenance that major issues flagged…
There's a lot of talk about the limitatons of Citi Bikes: they're heavy, people say, they're slow, and they're more suited to boring workday commutes than cycling that's exciting in any way. In the spirit of testing those supposed limits, we asked street BMX king Tyrone Williams--co-owner of Chinatown bike…
