Citi Bike

March 3, 2017

How Citi Bike stacks up against other U.S. bike shares

After initial skepticism and half-hearted arguments from bike-haters and snide remarks from bike snob cities like Seattle and San Francisco, New York City’s first official bike sharing system has turned out to be a success–that much we know. The numbers compiled by Priceonomics Data Studio for their client Spin reveal some surprising numbers when it comes to how we're using those bikes. D.C., for example, beat the other cities handily on most metrics, with San Francisco and Seattle consistently at the bottom of the list. Ok, so the research was done for a bike sharing startup hoping to expand its station-less system (more on that, too), but it’s interesting to compare statistics of share programs in the nation's biggest adopters of this new public transportation option–and get a chance to see how Citi Bike fares.
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January 31, 2017

NYC lost thousands of parking spots as daily bike ridership increased 80 percent in five years

By Dana Schulz

The NYC Department of Transportation has released its new "Cycling in the City" report, which examines how frequently New Yorkers use bikes as a mode of transportation and how that frequency has changed over time. In 2016, there were 14 million Citi Bike trips taken, a whopping 40 percent more than the previous year. And in terms of general bike riding, the DOT found that daily cycling grew 80 percent from 2010 to 2015, with 450,000 cycling trips made on a typical day in New York. But what has this meant for drivers? Less parking, thanks to the the city's 1,000+ miles of bike lanes. NY1 reports that in Manhattan alone, 2,300 parking spots south of 125th Street were lost in recent years to bike lanes and bike-sharing stations.
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January 11, 2017

Citi Bike to add ‘Laserlight’ projection feature to improve rider safety

By Diane Pham

Citi Bike is gearing up for a high-tech upgrade this winter in the form of lasers, reports Metro. The bike share's operator, Motivate, and the designers at Blaze have teamed up to outfit 250 bikes with Laserlight, a safety light that combines a 300 lumen LED with a forward projecting laser that continuously beams an image to warn cars and pedestrians a bike is approaching.
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February 9, 2016

Mapping 22 Million Citi Bike Rides Across NYC

By Michelle Cohen

Software Engineer Todd W. Schneider is a super data geek in his spare time, analyzing New York City’s publicly available stats on topics like the transportation system. Recently, he took a closer look at the Citi Bike system (h/t Untapped), which clocked over 10 million rides in 2015–22.2 million rides from July 2013 through November 2015–making it one of the world's largest bike share systems. Schneider's findings spotlight general trends in Citi Bike usage and give us the big picture, via charts, maps and some fascinating animation, on the migrations and tendencies of our busy population of blue and white bikes.
See where all those bikes are going

May 14, 2015

See the Northern Part of Central Park on the S.S. Hangover; Citi Bike Stations Coming to UWS

By Alyssa Alimurung

Here’s an excuse to head up to Upper Manhattan. Setting sail tomorrow, the S.S. Hangover will launch its six-week installation showing people the wonders of the northern end of Central Park [Untapped Cities] 39 Citi Bike stations will pop up in the Upper West Side by late summer [DNAinfo] Sad to see the Snowden bust go? Now you can get a […]

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February 27, 2015

Heartbeat Urban Drum to Become a ‘Heartseat;’ 53 New Citi Bike Stations for Brooklyn

By Dana Schulz

Stereotank’s heart-shaped urban drum in Times Square known as Heartbeat will turn into a “heartseat.” [Inhabitat] A Kickstarter campaign is raising funds for a documentary film about Horn & Hardart’s iconic Automat. [Gothamist] Mapping the 53 new Citi Bike stations coming to Williamsburg and Greenpoint. [BK Paper] A small shop in Ridgewood, Queens is the reason NYC […]

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May 7, 2014

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Citi Bike

How Citi Bike stacks up against other U.S. bike shares

NYC lost thousands of parking spots as daily bike ridership increased 80 percent in five years

Citi Bike to add ‘Laserlight’ projection feature to improve rider safety

Mapping 22 Million Citi Bike Rides Across NYC

See the Northern Part of Central Park on the S.S. Hangover; Citi Bike Stations Coming to UWS

Heartbeat Urban Drum to Become a ‘Heartseat;’ 53 New Citi Bike Stations for Brooklyn

Your Daily Link Fix: There’s a New Gang in Manhattan; $250K/Month Palace Suites City’s Priciest

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