CitiBike is on ice.<\/p>\n
Big Apple ridership has plummeted for the Lyft-owned bike-sharing service after deadly Winter Storm Fern dumped over a foot of snow on the city<\/a> \u2013 with the majority of stations still unusable due to snow buildup more than a week later, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n \u201cMost of the snow wasn\u2019t cleaned up,\u201d fumed cyclist Emily Oberlin, who bikes daily from Grand Central Station to her nonprofit job in Hell\u2019s Kitchen.<\/p>\n Big Apple ridership has plummeted for the Lyft-owned bike-sharing service after deadly Winter Storm Fern pummeled the city with more than a foot of snow over a week ago. Robert Miller for NY Post<\/p>\n Oberlin, 36, said she had to search multiple \u201cinaccessible\u201d trash- or snow-covered docking stations before finding a spot to park an e-bike.<\/p>\n Only about 500 of CitiBike\u2019s 2,925 active stations across the boroughs \u2013 or just 17% \u2013 have been cleaned by the company as of Tuesday, a rep said.<\/p>\n The snow has become an icy obstacle even at docking stations that are available, with sites covered in sheets of dangerous ice and several feet of snow that make it more difficult for cyclists to return their ride. <\/p>\n \u201cDocks in FiDi have so much snow packed in them that the bikes don\u2019t fit,\u201d one X user wrote Tuesday<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re spending extra minutes on the end of the trip trying to shove the bike in and end the ride. Fix this.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201c20 minutes to dock this bike,\u201d another wrote in a Sunday night post, accompanied by a photo of a CitiBike shoved into a snow-covered mess.<\/a><\/p>\n Oberlin had to search multiple \u201cinaccessible\u201d trash- or snow-covered docking stations before finding a spot to park an e-bike. Robert Miller for NY Post<\/p>\n One docking station at West 45th Street & Eighth Avenue on Wednesday was almost completely submerged in residential recycling, as Sanitation Department pickup remains delayed due to the snowfall <\/a>that walloped Gotham more than 10 days prior.<\/p>\n