EVG regular Pinhead spotted this attempt at Citi Yuks over on Sixth Avenue and 18th Street...
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EVG reader lukeavC spotted this trash piled up on a docking station on Fifteenth Street and Five Avenue...
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DNAinfo published an article yesterday titled "East Village's Citi Bike Stations Are Often Empty."
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Per the article:
If you want to ride a Citi Bike in Alphabet City, you'd better get up early.
Stations around Tompkins Square Park and along Avenues C and D are emptying by 8 a.m. — and they're staying that way through much of the day, Citi Bike data shows.
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All right,so not everyone like's "citi bikes".......But GARBAGE?? Honestly??
in about 4 months once winters starts to set in you wont have to get up early to find a bike...winter = citibike honeymoon over.
Ridership will probably go down in winter, but I bet not as much as you think. If you live around Ave B/C/D, winter cycling is about as easy as any other type commute. I ride my own bike whenever the streets are plowed, pretty much all winter long. A super windy day is more of a drag (so to speak).
I saw this type of thing over on East 12th in front of the St. Ann's facade and lame NY dorm. When all the priveliged youngsters were leaving I guess they threw their tons of garbage bags all over the Citibike racks. Well, the trash goes on the curb after all. Another thing these racks are getting in the way of.
Note that garbage piles around bike docks is something that happens almost exclusively in wealthy neighborhoods. It is because these buildings employ porters and superintendents that don't live in the neighborhood and don't give a damn about anything here. These are the guys who tell residents' moving trucks to park in bike lanes, who have been stacking trash for years around traditional bike racks, who put trash out too early so that it sits in huge piles starting at 4 in the afternoon, who don't even stop hosing down the sidewalk when pedestrians pass... these rich people cut corners on the people they hire, and the people they hire don't have respect for anything outside the buildings they work for, and it shows on the streetscape.
It's not a Citibike protest, it's just pig-headed trash placement by morons.
We need to start fining the buildings' residents for the ways in which their building staff commit violations against the neighborhood, and the problem will clear up IMMEDIATELY
Yup, I was thinking what Brian Van said. They just dump the trash wherever, the base of trees, around a muni-meter once. Could've been worse, at least it's not on the sidewalk...
The CitiBike stations are dying and useless since the batteries keep dying, I guess the trash is piling up so high they cant get enough sun. CBS News just did a TV segment today at the Union Square docking stations called Citibike Meltdown. The whole rack in 14th and Broadway is down most days, but the city claims there are no problems due tio the weather. But I noticed that every time it rains some of the stations go dark. I just heop we don't have a a garbage strike, imagine how many more Citibike blackouts we'll have then!
Commuters Frustrated As Citi Bike Docking Stations Break Down
Dead Batteries Leave Stations Useless
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Thousands of people are enjoying the new Citi Bike shared bicycles every day, but many stations are still being plagued with persistent problems.
And as CBS 2’s Jessica Schneider reported Wednesday night, Citi Bike members are getting frustrated.
“I tried to use my key thing and it wouldn’t work,” Claudia Citkovitz said.
CBS 2 arrived at a station on East 14th Street and Broadway at the height of the evening rush. Mike Parng tried to use his yearly pass to take a bike, but with no luck.
CBS 2’s Schneider stood at the bike station in Union Square for more than an hour. But no one could take bikes out, no one could put them back in, and the computer screen to operate the bike share station was dead.
Yet, the Citi Bike app was indicating absolutely no problems.
With confused would-be riders shaking their heads at the problems, CBS 2 decided to call for help.
“There are still some kinks that we’re discovering,” said Citi Bike worker Juseg Reynoso.
In this case, the batteries at the station were dead. Reynoso said he’d had to fix the station multiple times.
He said the batteries are drained whenever the solar panels that operate the docking system do not see enough sunlight. The city Department of Transportation insisted that the stations are not affected by the weather.
But DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan did concede, “We’re still working to make the experience from first swipe to final docking a seamless and reliable part of New Yorkers’ commutes.”
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/06/12/commuters-frustrated-as-citi-bike-docking-stations-break-down/
I agree it can be frustrating when a station doesn't work. It's only happened to me twice, and both times, I just rode a few blocks to the next. No biggie.
New Yorks DOT Commissioner Janette Sadistic-Kid did rolled out this program to punish city inhabitants equally. "I'm not only about torturing the poorest New Yorkers", Sadistic-Kid said.
Anon 1:54, it IS a "biggie" for those whose extra "few blocks" to walk to return or get a bike equals being late for work or appointments (never mind that this system is supposed to FUNCTION CORRECTLY).
This citi bike fiasco will soon be relegted to the ash hep of history, like "the gates" and legwarmers.
Note that garbage piles around bike docks is something that happens almost exclusively in wealthy neighborhoods.
Citibikes is an unmitigated success, damnit, i dont care how horribly mismanaged it is or that none of the equipment works properly. I want it to be a success therefore it is. See how i did that?
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