OPINION: Keep rollin in Brooklyn, Citi bikes!
At least in the greater Downtown Brooklyn area, Citi Bike is doing just what it is supposed to be doing — providing bikes for short trips.
Citi Bike, the largest bike-sharing program in the United States, opened in 2013 as a partnership between Alta Bicycle Share, New York City and Citigroup. Despite early technical glitches, delays due to Superstorm Sandy and initial doubts that the program would catch on, Citi Bike is an accepted part of the landscape in many of the city’s neighborhoods.
In Brooklyn, its territory stretches from Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant to Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights. Citi Bike still has only one bike station south of Atlantic Avenue, although the company’s website assures us that “planning work is continuing for Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Prospect Heights and Crown Heights.”