Citi Bike is helping New Yorkers connect to trains and buses, according to a new report from the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation analyzing trip data from last September.
New Yorkers looking to get back in a bike-share saddle were out of luck this morning. After Motivate shut the system down at 11 p.m. Wednesday, it was still offline during the a.m. commute today, even though the streets were mostly clear of snow. We asked the company about the protocol for reactivating the system after a winter storm.
If Seattle is going to give bike-share another try, it will have to learn from this experience. The Pronto system started off small and never scaled up. And that mandatory helmet law really didn't help.
Motivate, the company that runs Citi Bike, will install extra-bright "laserlights" on 250 bikes. The lights project the image of a bicycle onto the pavement about 20 feet in front a rider.