Citi Bike has increased its footprint by about 11% in New York City, adding 234 stations across seven new neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
The expansion adds more than 3,700 docks in Bay Ridge, Brownsville, East New York and Kensington in Brooklyn, Norwood and Riverdale in the Bronx, and Forest Hills in Queens, City Hall said.<\/p>\n
\u201cRiding a bike is one of the best ways to get around the city, and expansions like this one help more New Yorkers get where they need to go,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n
An initiative to expand Citi Bike that began under Mayor Eric Adams added almost 11% more Citi Bike docks to New York City. City Hall<\/p>\n
The project began under former Mayor Eric Adams, who announced it in December 2024.<\/p>\n
Installation started in Bay Ridge last fall where riders have already taken more than 75,000 trips, according to City Hall.<\/p>\n
Lyft has other plans to add \u201chundreds of docks\u201d within the existing service area this fall, including in Midtown, Chelsea, Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Gowanus, City Hall said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the growing network comes amid complaints that riding the silver electric bikes has become too expensive.<\/p>\n
Lyft has other plans to add \u201chundreds of docks\u201d within the existing service area this fall, including in Midtown, Chelsea, Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Gowanus, City Hall said.\u00a0 AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Mamdani administration officials have signaled they are looking into public subsidies for Citi Bike operator Lyft. SARAH YENESEL\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn told a New York Law School breakfast Oct. 8 that \u201creducing costs for riders is a very high priority for us right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Flynn noted \u2014 without being asked \u2014 that the bike share system was established without direct public subsidies and said the next city contract would offer an opportunity to rethink affordability.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe know that our micromobility share programs were set up without direct public subsidies,\u201d Flynn\u00a0said. \u201cSo I\u2019m happy to talk more about affordability.\u201d<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s agreement with operator Lyft expires in 2029 but can be amended at any time, which the two sides have done before.<\/p>\n
Transportation Alternatives<\/a> is a non-profit that is leading the push<\/a> for the city to subsidize Citi Bike so riders pay no more than $3 for a 45-minute e-bike ride.\u00a0<\/p>\n But Lyft is one of Transportation Alternative\u2019s top donors and is listed on the group\u2019s $100,000+ tier in fiscal 2024 the latest year available, according to TA\u2019s donor records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citi Bike has increased its footprint by about 11% in New York City, adding 234 stations across seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,26675,5459,1159,81,57,9,24,63,81121,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-374206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-citi-bike","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-e-bikes","tag-eric-adams","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-subsidies","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}