Talk:Citi Bike

3 phases, eventually 100,000+ bikes?
I wanted to add an image I discovered on the Transportation Politic. CitiBike hopes to eventually serve 4 boroughs with 89,500 bikes. These are planned rollouts but could change (likely grow) as they have in other cities. Now hurricane Sandy did split phase 1 in half, but I strongly believe this goal will be met or exceeded considering current demand.

http://thetransportpolitic.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/nyc-bikes.png


 * It's a pleasant and informative map. Unfortunately, according to Image use policy, we can't use it without evidence that the owner has released enough rights. Probably the owner is Alta. Some corporate owners see the benefit of releasing some of their intellectual property with a compatible free-use licence; others prefer to reserve all rights or only relase enough rights to allow certain commercial media to use copyright materials. Often in the past week or two when I turn a corner in Manhattan or Brooklyn I see a new Citibike station. When Wikipedians find them, their locations are not secret and for those we can expect to avoid a licencing problem, but as for future coverage areas we have to rely on released information. Jim.henderson (talk) 10:11, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

The map was provided by the NYC DCP in this publication (Public domain?):

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/transportation/bike_share_complete.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.183.244.227 (talk) 11:17, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

The box on the right side of the page should include cumulative numbers of annual members, which as of July 8, 2013 is over 55,000. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HamTech87 (talk • contribs) 03:36, 15 July 2013 (UTC)


 * No, alas, NYC documents are not automatically Public Domain. One problem with a counter in the WP:INFOBOX is, we have no mechanism to update it automatically. Perhaps we can provide a WP:EL to a Web page that frequently updates such numbers, such as the operator's. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:16, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Effects sections
I just wanted to say that I think it's ridiculous that the section "Effects" lists only one thing - a claim that Citibike has hurt bike rentals, which is backed up by a single article. First of all, this is potentially misleading - I've seen an article about how Citibike is actually helping bike shops, by A) Making the city safer for bikes (including more bike routes), thereby making people more inclined to buy bikes, B) getting people to realize how useful bikes are and then buy one. Second of all, even if this is an effect, it's certainly not a very important one - it's misleading for that to be the only effect. There are so many effects - where to start? Either there should be a far more comprehensive list of effects or there should be none at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.73.231.184 (talk) 04:07, 26 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I figure a few those effects for which we have sources should be included. If reliable news reports can only be found for one kind, then yes the paragraph will not look well balanced but that isn't a reason to delete. Do any reports in newspapers, television stations etc discuss several of those "so many effects" or are all other reports limited to blogs, speculations on what is likely to happen, and other things not useful to the article? Jim.henderson (talk) 23:16, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

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update needed
I'm not in a good position to make the fixes, but the "Company" paragraph seems out-of-date. It refers to "Alta" which is an obsolete name. Danchall (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 13:24, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

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