NYC's Bike Share Stuck At Its Current Size - WNYC
Citi Bike will not be growing any time soon. Six months after the launch of the popular bike sharing program, the New York City Department of Transportation isn't saying when a promised expansion into parts of Brooklyn and Queens will happen.
Citi Bike began in late May with 6,000 bikes and 332 docking stations. That was less than planned: Storm Sandy damaged 1,000 bikes and 88 stations that have yet to be placed in service. They've been missing from several neighborhoods stretching from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn to Long Island City, Queens -- represented by the gray dots on this map.
With winter approaching, the DOT is still not saying when residents can expect to see the blue bikes on their streets. And this week, DOT staff told Queens Community Board 1 that bike share won't reach Astoria and Jackson Heights for another 18 to 24 months.
District Manager Lucille Hartmann attended the meeting. She said the DOT's presentation aroused no great passion. "Nobody said, 'I don't want these,'" she recalled. "And nobody said, 'Oh goody, goody, goody.'"
