2024 is shaping up to be a year with more people using bikes and public transportation in New York If the announced “congestion fee” is approved this first quarter that cars should pay to drive in Midtown and Manhattan’s Financial District.
Coincidence or not, Citi Bike announced that it will raise its prices in several phases, starting this Thursday, January 4claiming that it would use that money to improve service at all stations and double the supply of electric bicycles, reported Time Out.
New Yorkers who use Citi Bikes without membership will now cost $4.79 dollars to unlock a bike and ride it for half an hour (was $4.49). After that period they will have to pay $0.30 per minute (before $0.26). Non-member day passes will make no difference, but will also start paying $0.30 per minute of travel.
Annual membership will go up at the end of the month, January 29: from $205 to $219.99 dollars, an increase of 7.3%. Detailed price changes can be found on the official Citi Bike and Lyft Pink website.
Citi Bike is a bicycle sharing system that serves four of the five boroughs of NYC – The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens – as well as the neighboring cities of Jersey City and Hoboken, New Jersey. There is 33,000 bicycles available at 1,915 stations and making more than 131,200 daily tripsaccording to figures from the end of summer 2023.
Due to the pandemic and insecurity in public transportation, the use of electric bicycles has become more common in NYC, as a personal and work means to deliver food and other products. But they have generated a serious problem: the lithium-ion batteries found inside caused only in 2023 hundreds of fires and at least 18 deaths, many of them Hispanic. It is estimated that there are 60,000 delivery workers in New York.
In response, the mayor’s office announced the “Charge Safe, Ride Safe” plan in March. But the tragedies have not stopped.
Also Cyclists and motorcyclists are frequent protagonists, as victims and perpetrators, of road accidents when riding on sidewalks, disrespecting traffic lights and even the direction of the streets. In September, teacher Priscilla Loke was killed by an electric bicycle in a crosswalk in Chinatown (NYC).
Traffic accidents are a great challenge in New York and In many cases the drivers flee. This despite “Vision Zero” road safety plan created in 2014 by then-new Mayor Bill de Blasio, who promised to make the city safer for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists with a goal of zero deaths by 2024. According to the NYPD, Cyclist deaths increased 260% in the first six months of 2023 and 325% since the implementation of the “Vision Zero” plan in 2014.
2024-01-04 13:47:00
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