New York Citi Bikes soon to allow riders to count calories
New Yorkers may soon be able to count calories burned and miles traveled while pedaling Citi Bikes, the popular bicycle-sharing program with a troubled history that is undergoing a major overhaul under new leadership.
The new CEO of the Brooklyn-based company that owns Citi Bike says a revamped smartphone app will soon offer such detailed fitness stats and allow people to make real-time reports of such issues as flat tires or broken seats.
Jay Walder, a mass transit veteran who used to run the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, envisions the bikes becoming a seamless part of the city’s transportation network, with plans in the works to incorporate docking stations into architectural design plans for massive new development projects such as Hudson Yards, which is being touted as the new Rockefeller Center along the Hudson River.