Tag: Citi Bike
Just because you’re not BMX master Tyrone Williams doesn’t mean you’re excused from knowing proper bike-docking etiquette. Let Redditor Matt Manhattan show you how its done. (Photo: Matt Manhattan) […]
NYC’s popular bike share program, which the people love and the tabloids hate, is expanding. On Tuesday, Citi Bike announced that it will add 6,000 bikes to its fleet and “over 375 new stations” by 2017, most of which are slated for Uptown, Brooklyn and Queens. Jay Walder, the MTA chairman who suddenly resigned in […]
Master of disguise, Christian Damgaard, 41, was just unlocking his [totally-not-a-Citi-Bike] bicycle when police became suspicious. There was something about the purple bicycle that just seemed off, but what could it be? It looked like a Citi Bike but it was purple, Citi Bikes are blue. After a thorough investigation using what’s known as cop-eye, […]
Comedian and actorish-person Seth Rogen apparently had some issues earlier today with his Citi Bike rental, so he responded like most sensible people would. He sent a public message to them and his over 2.2. million followers on Twitter. Fuck you @CitibikeNYC — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) September 7, 2014 Five minutes later, the person handling […]
From the data enthusiast who brought you Brighton Beach’s penchant for massage therapy and the worst times for NY traffic (basically, all the times), here is I Quant NY‘s Ben Wellington preparing to try out a Citi Bike — in the safest way possible, utilizing the company’s system data and the city’s vehicle/bicycle collision information. I decided to crunch some numbers […]
We’ve griped before about the city government’s dogged refusal to funnel any public funding to Citi Bike, and now, City Hall wants a $1 million payout from the cash-strapped program. As the Wall Street Journal points out, the city’s contract with Alta Bicycle Share, the company that operates Citi Bike, stipulates a payment from Alta to […]
We’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of Citi Bike’s launch in NYC. To celebrate, let’s take a look at what may be the system’s greatest workhorse. The always wonderful NYC data blog I Quant NY crunched Citi Bike’s publicly available data to find bike #17279, which blogger Ben Wellington is calling “the busiest Citi Bike in […]
It’s no secret that Citi Bike is strapped for cash, and now, a new investor may provide the capital it needs to continue running and complete planned extensions into new neighborhoods. REQX Ventures, formed by Related Companies and the high-end fitness chain Equinox, its subsidiary, has outlined a deal to invest in the bike share program. […]
There’s no denying that Citi Bike is in some financial trouble, but a new report suggests that its future might be brighter than originally reported. The bike share program incurred much of its costs this year during Hurricane Sandy, when a major warehouse was flooded and equipment destroyed, and in expenses related to getting the […]
At first glance, the video below seems to show a thriving enterprise. Using Citi Bike’s openly available rider data, Jeff Ferzoco and Sarah Kaufman of NYU’s Rudin Center visualized two days in the life of the cash-strapped bike share program: over September 17 and 18 — two 60-degree, non-rainy days — we see 75,000 trips happening […]
