With a week to go until Citi Bike launches, we're hearing from readers who received their annual member keys in the mail over the weekend. Here's a look at the packet that reader "dporpentine" opened on Saturday.
If you haven't received your member key yet, I wouldn't worry. Citi Bike has to send out about 13,000 or so member keys in time for the May 27 launch, and they're not all going to arrive simultaneously. (I'm waiting for mine, too.)
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The price of a yearly Citi Bike membership has grown by 77 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars since the bike-share program launched 2013, the Independent Budget Office said.
And more people bike than drive on the Brooklyn street!
The DOT is once again slow rolling the completion of public charging infrastructure as the city continues to face a battery fire crisis.
The Urban Institute found an overall increase in capital investment in ground transportation — mostly on highways — and flat investment in public transit.
It was horrific, it was depraved, it was predictable. And it will happen again. Plus other news.
Zohran Mamdani likes taking the train and riding a Citi Bike — but the demands of being New York City’s mayor may not be compatible with his transit habit.
