Mesmerizing! Citi Bikes Arrive

Here it is: A bike-share station with bikes, and it’s not a photo shoot. A reader sent this shot of Foley Square across from the courts this morning.

Update: More than 850 of the 6,000 bikes are in the stations as of this morning, according to NYC DOT.

The blue bikes are a great conversation starter. After a friend of the blog alerted me to the newly docked bikes at Prince and MacDougal last night, I headed over and immediately started chatting with an older couple ogling the bikes about what sort of trips bike-share would be good for. We agreed: The closest analogy is that you’d use it like a cab.

This might be the first photograph ever taken of Citi Bikes waiting to be used. Photo: ##https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200452755776201&l=b177199e25##Kim Wiley-Schwartz##

Here’s another one at Barrow and Hudson, via @BrooklynSpoke:

ALSO ON STREETSBLOG

America’s Biggest Bike-Share Operator Now Makes Its Own Bikes

By Ben Fried |
Motivate, the company that runs bike-share systems in several large American cities, is now manufacturing its own bikes. That might explain why the timetable for Citi Bike expansion has been getting a lot firmer. When the current Motivate management team took over last fall, they inherited two big problems. Most of their systems ran on flawed software that crippled reliability […]
STREETSBLOG SF

Bay Area Bike Share to Expand Tenfold By 2017

By Aaron Bialick |
Bay Area Bike Share will expand to a 7,000-bike system over the next two years and venture into Oakland, Berkeley, and Emeryville. San Francisco’s system will dramatically increase to 4,500 bikes, and San Jose’s will expand to 1,000. The mayors of all five cities announced the expansion today along with Motivate, the system’s operator (formerly known as […]