This past weekend, Citi Bike relaunched its website, as Streetsblog first noted. Membership sign-up isn’t available yet, they point out. But! The next Citi Bike demonstration is scheduled for April 21 (Earth Day) at Union Square.
In the meantime, workers are installing bike-docking stations in Brooklyn... and you can expect some here soon enough.
And the Citi Bike site now has updated information on the planned docking stations when the program finally rolls out next month.
Here are the planned East Village locations. (It's very possible that I missed one from the interactive map, which you can find here.) A modified list from the last time that we took a look.
• North side of East 14th Street near Avenue B
This station will have 33 docks and is located on the sidewalk.
• South side of East 11th Street near First Avenue
This station will have 35 docks and is located in the parking lane of the street.
• South side of East 11th Street near Second Avenue
This station will have 39 docks and is located in the parking lane of the street.
• East side of Lafayette Street near E 8th Street
This station will have 55 docks and is located in a no-parking area of the street.
• East 7th Street near Cooper Square
This station will have 42 docks and is located in a public park or plaza.
• North side of St. Mark's Place near Second Avenue
This station will have 39 docks and is located in a no-parking area of the street.
• North side of St. Mark's Place near First Avenue
This station will have 31 docks and is located in a no-parking area of the street.
• North side of East 7th Street near Avenue A
This station will have 35 docks and is located in the parking lane of the street.
• South side of East 6th Street near Avenue B
This station will have 27 docks and is located in the parking lane of the street.
• South side of East 10th Street near Avenue A
This station will have 36 docks and is located on the sidewalk.
• South side of East 13th Street near Avenue A
This station will have 39 docks and is located in the parking lane of the street.
• North side of East 9th Street near Avenue C
This station will have 38 docks and is located in the parking lane of the street.
• East side of Avenue D near East 11th Street
This station will have 24 docks and is located in a NYCHA (public housing) development
• East side of Avenue D near East 8th Street
This station will have 24 docks and is located in a NYCHA (public housing) development
• South side of East 5th Street near Avenue C
This station will have 31 docks and is located in the parking lane of the street
• South side of East 6th Street near Avenue D
This station will have 23 docks and is located on the sidewalk.
• East side of Avenue D near East 3rd Street
This station will have 23 docks and is located on the sidewalk.
• South side of East 2nd Street near Avenue C
This station will have 31 docks and is located in the parking lane of the street.
• North side of East 2nd Street near Avenue B
This station will have 37 docks and is located in the parking lane of the street.
• South side of East 2nd Street near Second Avenue
This station will have 31 docks and is located in the parking lane of the street.
• South side of East 3rd Street near First Avenue
This station will have 31 docks and is located in the parking lane of the street.
• South side of East 2nd Street near Second Avenue
This station will have 31 docks and is located in the parking lane of the street.
• South side of East 4th Street near Second Avenue
This station will have 39 docks and is located in the parking lane of the street.
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Previously on EV Grieve:
Here are your East Village bike share locations, probably
Report: Citi Bike share back on track for a May debut, probably definitely
The East Village is in the 1st rollout phase of the bike-share program this May, probably for sure
I assume there will be more docks than bikes? Seems like quite a lot of bikes (hundreds) for just the East Village.
ReplyDeleteegad! do they really think that folks that ride bikes need a "dock" one block of each other? sort of like chase bank.
ReplyDelete• South side of East 11th Street near First Avenue - 35 docks in the parking lane of the street.
• South side of East 11th Street near Second Avenue - 39 docks in the parking lane of the street.
and will there rally be 74 folks that need bikes?
there is already a parking problem around 11th street and first avenue around the taxi invasion to the mosque site, and a traffic problem because of the bus/bike lanes.
this will be interesting if nothing else
I predict a loud backlash when people who drive realize how much parking is being lost to what is a better means of transportation that deserves as much a piece of the public real estate as cars ... so let them complain. The smokers did too but then they got use to it.
ReplyDeleteThe first word that springs to mind is "absurd". The rest can't be printed.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lotta bikes
ReplyDeleteFinally NYC can join the club of first world cities with a real bike share program.
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome. I just hope they have gotten the balance right so that the system is well used, but not overwhelmed.
ReplyDeleteWHAT A F*CKING NIGHTMARE
ReplyDeleteI tend to agree with glamma.
ReplyDeleteI am sure the city overpaid for those bikes. Now we pick up the slack, by overpaying for rentals.
ReplyDeleteSystem wide, there are supposed to be 50% more docks than there are bikes, so people can find a place to park. The real question will be, will the bikes all disappear in the morning, and the docks filled to overflowing in the evening?
ReplyDeleteTo the the drivers who complain about losing their precious parking spaces, suck it. The total cost of bike share is a rounding error compared to the cost of car infrastructure. And none of it is publicly funded. It's time someone else gets a piece of the pie.
I'm pretty excited for the bike share; being able to get from one end of the neighborhood to the other without too much time or effort will be great.. say you need to get from ave c to astor place to catch the 6, will be way better/faster than walking or busing. I already ride my bike a lot around the city, but rarely use it to link up with public transit or any sort of one way ride. The possibilities w/ a bike share are great.
ReplyDelete@Wilfried: the citibike people are supposed to move the bikes around as needed; so if a popular destination fills up, they'll move bikes to empty docks...
@blue glass: although I agree that two docks on 11th seems like slight overkill, I imagine this is more to accomodate people who ride north to south on the bike lanes on 1st and 2d ave, then people who are going east to west on 11th...
As for lost parking, I'm not too sympathetic; but I feel slightly worse for street vendors who might be losing well worn spots (e.g. halal truck on south side of 11th near 1st ave). I do hope the citibike people really maximized the sidewalk/plaza docks where possible.
This map is a joke, right? You're kidding with all these docks. This can't be for real. I mean, it just can't.
ReplyDeleteA great development. Too bad the bikes are so ugly.
ReplyDeleteThis is a far better use of space than a few parking spaces.
- East Villager
This is privately funded, NYC will also benefit from reduced congestion on roads and mass transit.
ReplyDeleteYou need numerous dock locations in case either a dock is full/empty, or maybe that other dock is closer to your destination/pick up point.
Alta will need time to discover regular commuting the patterns. At certain times of day they will have to restock the bikes. Take a few months to get the system working flawlessly. This has proven successful in a variety of cities.
Great redundancy in case of a black out or hurricane Sandy like subway knockout. These are individually solar powered.
The nightmare is cars. With luck, this plan will help decrease their negative impact on all our lives.
ReplyDeleteWhy is this a nightmare? Please elaborate.
ReplyDeleteUMMM BECAUSE THEY ARE DROWNING THE ENTIRE EAST VILLAGE IN AN OBNOXIOUS CITIBIKE MARKETING PLOY THAT WILL MAKE A LOT OF $$$ FOR CITIBANK WHILE WE DEAL WITH YUPPIES AND TOURISTS CRASHING INTO EACHOTHER AND US. THIS IS AN EGREGIOUS MISUSE OF POWER AND THE OVERSATURATION IS ALMOST COMICAL... MARK MY WORDS NOT ONE DOLLAR OF THESE PROFITS WILL GO BACK INTO SOCIAL SERVICES... AND PEOPLE ARE JUST DRINKING UP THAT KOOL AID, BOY HOW SAD.
ReplyDeleteThe only rational drawback from this program that anyone has been able to point out is the ugly branding. In countless posts on EVG and other city sites I haven't seen one logical argument against that is backed up by facts or even logic (except some nebulous concept of "New York exceptionalism").
ReplyDeleteEnough with the truthiness, use your words to make arguments. Support those arguments with something other than capital letters. For example, why would bike shares be dangerous in NYC why they have been relatively safe in other major cities? Do current bike accident numbers back up the argument that recreational bicyclists are a danger?
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Keep enjoying the Kool-Aid while it lasts. This program seems destined for a financial bailout at taxpayers' expense. Just ask the good folks in Montreal. (See link below)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/05/17/bixi-bailout-package-approved.html
Does anyone have an idea what these bikes actually cost per unit?
ReplyDeleteYeah, Napoleon Bloomberg's administration will consider this a 'success' 'aight. People will use these within the first few weeks and months but then it'll peak and will have a decline then a significant downfall. It's just another trend. Much like all these gastropubs popping-up and latest Apple products. And the novelty wears out and people would be looking for the next gastrobike or iBikeShare 2.0 or 4S. Tourists will be using this most afterwards. In short, what anon. April 10, 2013 at 9:24 PM said. And by that time napoleon Bloomberg wil be gone from the office will blame this iBikeShare failure on the current administration.
ReplyDeleteNYC is a big place- not all of us live near our jobs or live near efficient transit or safe transit. that's why I drive, so suck it, all you haters.
ReplyDeleteIf you think NYC is a quaint village that will be a biking holiday I got news for you- trucks, taxis and cars will only go away because of assholes like you who bitch and moan about living in a city that has cars (boohoo!!!! cars are so evil except when people like you feel like renting a zipcar or hopping in a taxi, right?) You live near your jobs and then have the nerve to judge people who live in the outer boroughs who can save several hours a week by driving. I pay for it in taxes, insurance, tickets and time so stop with this divisive bullshit.
You want a bike program? Great, There are ways to do this without putting hundreds of bikes in the middle of the street and inconveniencing people who live and work here.
This is just Emperor Bloomberg's F-You to all of us in the outer boroughs because he didn't get his London style congestion pricing plan.
this is going to suck for everyone - there is gonna be a lot more injuries because of this, and the lack of parking is going to be a burden on those who want to visit from places that do not have convenient busses to and from, which is most places outside the city - this is a terrible, terrible thing they have done and it will suck for everyone.
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