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Citi Bike to expand
in Brooklyn nabes
SEEING BLUE: Citi Bike will come to almost a dozen more neighborhoods across Kings County by
2023, city offi cials announced on July 16. Photo by Kevin Duggan
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
They’re pedaling away
from controversy!
New York City’s largest
purveyor of pedalpowered
transportation
announced a five-year
expansion into eight virgin
Brooklyn neighborhoods
on Tuesday — one
week after a social justice
group called out the service
for failing to serve
low-income communities.
Transportation company
Lyft — which acquired
Citi Bike in 2018
— will invest $100 million
to triple the total number
of blue bikes in the city,
many of which will be
docked in transit-starved
and low-income communities,
according to Borough
President Eric Adams.
“The expansion of Citi
Bike into more low-income
communities, and
communities of color, is
a long overdue step in delivering
transit equity
for all New Yorkers,” said
Adams.
The announcement follows
hot on the heels of
a new study that shows
Citi Bikes are currently
concentrated in predominantly
wealthy and white
neighborhoods .
The head of New York
Communities for Change
— the organization behind
the study — chastised
the company for taking
so long to bring their
bikes to more neighborhoods
in the city and said
the company will need to
take additional steps to
ensure parity.
“We welcome bike sharing
to previously unserved
neighborhoods in Brooklyn,
Queens and the Bronx,
but Citi Bike has had seven
years to serve all New
Yorkers and this is too
little too late,” Jonathan
Westin said in an emailed
statement. “Citi Bike has
prioritized the wealthiest
and whitest parts of our
city for too long, and while
expanded access will be a
big step forward, it’s the
fi rst of many needed to expand
bike sharing to all
New Yorkers.”
The new plan calls for
additional Citi Bike docks
near the L Train — the
company has been stuffing
rental bikes along
the line in anticipation
of the now now-averted
L-pocalypse since April
— but the lion’s share of
new docks will be spread
throughout neighborhoods
that have little to
no access to the Citi Bike,
including Brownsville,
Crown Heights, Prospect
Lefferts Gardens, East
Flatbush, Windsor Terrace,
Ditmas Park, Kensington
and Sunset Park.
Park Slope and Bedford
Stuyvesant, where
Citi Bike currently has a
substantial presence, will
also see some new docks
installed in underserved
areas.
The new rollout will
be accompanied by new
handcycles — hand-powered
bikes ideal for some
disabled riders — which
the company will test out
this summer at community
events throughout
the Five Boroughs.
Citi Bike currently offers
a reduced membership
of $5 per month —
instead of $15 — to public
housing residents or recipients
of the federal
food assistance program,
called Snap.
But that’s not enough,
according to Westin, who
said that the upfront cost
of $3 per trip and the $169
annual membership are
still prohibitively high for
many would-be cyclists in
the city.
“Expensive per ride
charges and membership
fees continue to keep bike
sharing out of reach for
too many New Yorkers,”
he said.
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