Citi Bike serves mostly rich white people. All you need to do is look at the coverage map to see that. So where should it expand next to change that dynamic?
Lyft will restore e-bike service for its bike-share customers in San Francisco at least three months before the same bikes return to the streets of New York City.
Citi Bike's daily ridership increased by 7.8 percent last year, according to DOT's just-released "Cycling in the City" report — an increase that came even though Citi Bike did not expand its coverage footprint and the system experienced a two-month repair crisis that reduced the fleet almost in half.
It's the fall of Citi Bike. One month after the Lyft-owned company grounded all of its 1,000 pedal-assist electric bicycles due to brake problems, Citi Bike now says the popular speedsters will return in the autumn.
In a sneak-peak at the new issue of Reclaim, the in-house magazine of Transportation Alternatives, writer Jessie Singer brings us up to speed on e-bikes, e-scooters and the mayor's poorly reasoned crackdown.