Brooklyn Bugle » citi bike share http://brooklynbugle.com On the web because paper is expensive Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:10:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 NY Times Writer Describes Citi Bike Share Trials And Tribulationshttp://brooklynbugle.com/2013/06/10/ny-times-writer-describes-citi-bike-share-trials-and-tribulations/ http://brooklynbugle.com/2013/06/10/ny-times-writer-describes-citi-bike-share-trials-and-tribulations/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:10:04 +0000 http://brooklynheightsblog.com/?p=59880 (via Brooklyn Heights Blog)
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New York Times writer Gina Bellafante writes about her experience with Citi Bike Share and it wasn’t totally awesome.

NYT: In light of these declaimed absurdities, I became determined to embrace bike sharing after having had reservations, not about the concept itself, but about its execution. Last week I set out for an inaugural ride with the goal of getting from Brooklyn Heights, where there are 10 Citi Bike kiosks (so many that it seems clear that Citibank pushed to have the heaviest presence in the most affluent neighborhoods to maximize promotion) to Pike and Monroe Streets in Lower Manhattan. There, in front of the Rutgers Houses, the Transportation Department was fitting people for free bike helmets, something it will continue to do in front of Housing Authority properties all summer. The idea was to get some sense of how low-income New Yorkers were responding to the bike-sharing program and how well it might serve them.

When I went to retrieve a bike at Clark Street, there was a problem with dislodgment; none of the various codes I entered managed to release a bike. It took eight calls to the help line to get to the automated voice system and ultimately to a human being. At this point I was running late and decided to take a cab to Manhattan and return home using a bike from the Pike and Monroe kiosk. As it happened, I had to ride back to Brooklyn from another station because that kiosk was shielded with blue tape, and none of the bikes was usable.

In April, Brooklyn Spoke looked at Bellafante’s earlier critiques of the program.


Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/59880

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Transportation alternative maven blog Brooklyn Spoke tweeted a photo of “Werner, in his 70s, lives in Brooklyn Heights, hasn’t been on a bike in 15 years” earlier today. The kicker? He’s a Citi Bike Share customer. (Note: Werner technically lives in Cobble Hill.)

RELATED: Werner Gets His Close-Up

But…wait…there’s more. It appears that the “Werner” in question could very possibly be our favorite BQE watcher Werner Cohn, who spend a few years documenting crashes on the highway on his blog. And according to his son’s twitter reply is in his 80s.


Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/59679

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After so much whooping and hollering from all sides all sides, the Citi Bike Share program officially launched today, as evidenced by this pic along Hicks at Montague streets—where the newly filled racks extend from the corner at Heights Cafe to J. McLaughlin.

NYC Mayor Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan christened the beginning of program at a docking station near the Brooklyn Bridge Monday morning. Bike-share launches with 6,000 bikes at 330 docking stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Some reports claim 9,000 people have signed up for the program so far.

And the reactions from all over the city are trickling in:


Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/59350

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In case you missed it, there are other Brooklynites besides a few (gasp!) NIMBY’s in Brooklyn Heights and other brownstone neighborhoods who are not only against Citi Bike Share (which launches this Monday) but have managed to keep the kiosks out of their neighborhood completely. Bike foes meet your new friends in the “Black Hat Hole”:

NYDN: CitiBike launches Monday with dozens of rental kiosks dotting the landscape throughout the gentrified sections of Williamsburg, Brooklyn Heights and Clinton Hill — but nary a single location in the part of South Williamsburg dominated by Hasidic Jews, who have opposed at every turn the Bloomberg Administration’s efforts to increase cycling.
“They put the racks where they are going to be used,” said Community Board 1 member Simon Weiser, who hashed out kiosk locations with the Department of Transportation. “Look at the Hasidic community. No one rides a bike here.”
It’s not just low ridership that created the so-called “black hat black hole” in the bike share plan, but outright hostility to cyclists.

Hasidic spokesperson Isaac Abraham adds that if bike share kiosks are every placed too close to their neighborhood, “We will put baby carriages there. We will make a baby carriage lane.”


Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/59307

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