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Congrats to everyone who rode yesterday and helped us break another ridership record! 138,372 rides on Sept. 8 was the most Citi Bike rides ever taken on a single day 🎉
📰 BREAKING NEWS. Yesterday, Citi Bike riders crushed all of our previous daily ridership records by completing over 143,200 trips on a single day! 🎉
Now, who's ready for 150,000? 😉
🚨RECORD BREAKING NEWS🚨 The results are in! With 743,751 rides including 5 days with over 100k rides, last week is now our highest ridership week ever! 🚲 ☀️ 🚲 ☀️ 🚲
✨ Weekend Plans✨
Bike fleets are hitting the streets. Nearly 1,500 new ebikes are starting to roll out around city! Let's ride🚲💙
Introducing the new Citi Bike electric bike!⚡️With a motor to turbo charge your ride, our new pedal-assist bicycle is the best way to get around NYC—without breaking a sweat.
We’ve just hit a new milestone — 100 million Citi Bike rides! And as it turns out, our 100 millionth rider is an essential worker helping to keep NYC going.
Our riders depend on safe streets each and every day, and the sharp rise in cyclist deaths this year is heartbreaking.
We support this important action and encourage all of #BikeNYC to show up in solidarity next week.
Full event details: facebook.com/events/2188167
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Three cyclists were killed last week. Drivers have killed 15 people on bikes this year — more than double the number killed this time last year.
If you jumped on a Citi Bike on September 12, consider yourself a record holder 🎉 there were 103,139 rides on Saturday, making it the most rides in a single day ever for Citi Bike! Plus 11% of those were ⚡ebike⚡ ️rides. Ride Up! 🚲 ⬆️
#bikeshare #citibike #newrecord
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We disagree with this decision and believe it is important for the system to remain open and provide a reliable transportation option. We know how disruptive this is to everyone who relies on Citi Bike to get home — especially essential workers.
Did you ride Citi Bike on Saturday and think it seemed like everyone was out riding on such a picture perfect day?
You might not be wrong, because we hit a new single day ridership record of over 136,300 rides!!
Thank you as always, Citi Bike fam 💙
BIG NEWS: Today announced that & are funding a major expansion of the Citi Bike Critical Workforce Program. Now, critical workers across NYC can access free one year Citi Bike Annual Memberships, as opposed to one month memberships.
To support the solidarity ride at Grand Army Plaza tonight, we will be waiving overtime fees on rides over 30 min (or 45 min for members) through 9pm.
Standard pricing still applies: bit.ly/3h99bLe
The records keep coming! Last week was our best week ever with 910,106 Citi Bike rides. We've broken the daily ridership record 3x this month already - most recently on 9/14 with 138,727 rides.
Who's loving this great riding weather? ☀️
If you rode Citi Bike this Saturday, it may have felt like the whole city was riding along with you... that's because we hit a new single day ridership record!!
135,005 rides !! 🎉
Thank you, Citi Bike fam 🚲💙
It’s our 8th birthday! 🎉
Since 2013, we have:
🚲 Quadrupled our fleet size (+ebikes!)
🗽Expanded across 4 boroughs and 2 cities in NJ
🚴♂️Broke our highest ridership in a day record - from 42,010 to 118,587
Thank YOU for the joy rides, daily commutes, and Citi Bike love 💙!
What does it mean for bikes, people, and city living when cars come off the streets? A thread👇 [1/6]
We’re happy to report that Citi Bike is operating as normal during the power outage. You are able to access bikes and docks as you normally would.
Citi Bike fam!
We're partnering w/ to add 8k new docks and 4k bikes in 2022.
Through the "infill" process, we will be adding/extending more docks to reduce the # of empty stations and keep you moving! 🚲💙
Check out this priority-area heat map based on DOT data.
Due to the curfew being lifted, we’re back to normal 24/7 operations! We apologize for the inconvenience that the city mandates have caused for our riders and appreciate your understanding.
NEWS: Citi Bike riders have officially taken 75 MILLION rides in NYC! 🎉
Thank you to our incredible community for pedaling with us on this journey and helping make Citi Bike what it is today.
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In support of the movement and the ride from Grand Army Plaza tonight, we will be waiving overage fees again from 4pm-10pm. This is only the beginning — we’ll ride with more and more New Yorkers as the movement continues
Standard pricing applies: bit.ly/3h99bLe.
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There are over 3 million parking spaces in NYC, and 97% of those spaces are free. Consider this: if we replaced those parking spots, we’d have space across the city for 12 Central Parks. [4/6]
🚨MILESTONE ALERT🚨
Our records show we passed 27 million rides in 2021 yesterday, up significantly from just under 20 million last year!
Thank you Citi Bike fam for riding with us!🚲💙 #bikeboomnyc
NEWS: Citi Bike is going to dramatically expand!
We’re doubling our service area and tripling the number of bikes to 40,000 over the next five years, thanks to a $100 million investment from . Read the full details, just shared by : www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-
New Record Alert 🎉🏆: What a way to close out September! Congrats to our riders for breaking our all-time monthly record with over 2.5 MILLION rides in a single month.
We told you we were just getting started. To claim this offer and join the movement, use code SOLIDARITY in your Citi Bike app on June 20 from 3–5 PM.
See our blog post for more info and terms: lyft.com/blog/posts/rec
NEW RECORD! Yesterday you took over 70,000 rides! The first time this has ever been done in North America. Cheers to more records to come! 🎉
Citi Bike fam, we ended June with a new ridership record - over 3 MILLION RIDES! Any predictions for July?
***RECORD-BREAKING SUMMER***
MAY - 2,709,684 🚲
JUNE - 3,166,619 🚲
JULY - ❓
Last night we were required by the City on short notice to shut down service by 10:30pm and for the duration of curfew. We know how disruptive this was for our riders, especially for those who rely on bikeshare as a critical option for essential travel needs, and we’re sorry.
New Citi Bike ebikes in NYC ✅
Highest ridership day of 2022 ✅
(so far!) with 112,620 rides yesterday!
Keep it up New York! 🚲
Let's talk impact...
Ridership is ⬆️ 30% since 2020
4 months of 3 million+ rides, including 3.3M in Sept (!!)
So far in #Biketober we have broken our annual ridership record at 21 million rides (and counting) 🚲🚲
Cheers to getting more New Yorkers on 2 wheels! 🚲
We've been keeping something under wraps that we are so excited to start rolling out very soon. 👀 🚲
NEWS: Yesterday riders crushed our previous daily ridership record by taking 91,529 trips in a single day! 🎉
This is the first time more than 90,000 trips have been completed in one day on Citi Bike or any bikeshare network in America.
Check out when we hit other milestones!👇
NEW STATION UPDATE: Access to the vaccine is critical for beating this virus, so we've installed two new stations (plus a valet hub!) at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, one of NYC's vaccination sites. Next up? The Bronx Bathgate site.
If you were a rider that participated in Justice Ride VI and were charged overage fees, please DM us to get this corrected. We stand in solidarity with our riders and will waive overage fees for future rides.
Rolling into Herald Square on the new ebike to join in announcing 10 new miles of protected bike lanes in Manhattan.
Sooooo much awesome news for #bikenyc today 🙌
In partnership with and , we’ve launched the Citi Bike Critical Workforce Membership Program, providing the first responder, healthcare, and transit workforce with a free month of Citi Bike membership. bit.ly/2WIM9mG
🎉NEW RECORD🎉
In July, you took over 3.5 MILLION trips on Citi Bike breaking our old monthly ridership record! 🥳
Keep it up and let's see how many rides you take in August!💙
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Studies also suggest that the avg car using parking only makes 2.5 trips per day—95% of the time they remain parked. Meanwhile, the avg Citi Bike station accommodates 27 bike trips per parking spot per day. twitter.com/ohlukeson/stat
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Time-lapse video of @CitiBikeNYC usage compared to parked cars, taken 5pm Weds 6/14. @transalt #bikenyc #nyc #bikeshare #streetopia
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Riding into June with a 🗣NEW RECORD! We ended #BikeMonth with a record-breaking 2,709,684 rides, including over 1 million ebike rides. Thank you Citi Bike fam! 🚲💙
TODAY we are celebrating turning 5 at branches around the city with cupcakes, balloons and COMPLIMENTARY 24hr Citi Bike® passes! Check out the full list of locations and join the fun until 4p, while supplies last. Citi.com/nyc
Exciting news for Williamsburg and Greenpoint! 🎉
We’ve added over 20 new Citi Bike stations to the area. Peep one of the newest over at Roebling St. & S 4th St! 👀
Find all the stations on our map and let us know if you've spotted any: lft.to/3onrbu3
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We’re inspired by the countless articles calling for “streets for people” like the reimagining NYC with fewer cars. Think of the possibilities if some of that 75% of space dedicated to cars were given to restaurants, bikes, pedestrians💡[6/6]
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NEWS: Yesterday, riders crushed our previous daily ridership record by completing 81,964 trips in a single day! 🎉
It’s been a big week for Citi Bike, and thanks to you, our pedals aren’t slowing down anytime soon. Now, who's ready for 90,000? 😉
Our new ebikes start rolling out today! ⚡ Shave time off your commute. Take that bridge on (no sweat). Make it there with time to spare.
Learn more: citibikenyc.com/how-it-works/e
New station alert! Today, we installed a new station outside Columbia University Medical Center at 169th St & Ft. Washington Ave.
This will provide healthcare workers uptown with a new option for getting to work during this difficult time.
Have you noticed that there are more ebikes around? Your mind isn’t playing tricks on you. Over the past couple of months, we’ve tripled our ebike fleet, allowing more riders the chance to get around the city easily. ⚡️🚲
New ebikes just dropped at Eastern Parkway & Grand Army Plaza in Prospect Heights! 🚲⚡️✨
NEWS: This Saturday, riders smashed our daily ridership record for the 11th time since May by completing 100,379 Citi Bike rides in a single day! 🎉
This is the first time more than 100K trips have been completed in one day on Citi Bike or any bikeshare network in America.
No denying it, July 4th hits different this year. Tomorrow, let’s ride for freedom at Justice Ride V. In support, we are waving overages for rides starting after 4pm and ending before 10pm. Ride on, NYC.
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As directed by , we are temporarily shutting down service tonight, restarting as soon as curfew is lifted at 5am.
We know NYC is hurting right now. We’re still discussing options for providing service during curfew hours and will share more when we can.
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We have been working with all day, hoping that we could avoid another shutdown. Unfortunately, we were just informed that we are required to shut down tonight, starting at 8pm for curfew.
Check us out in Google Maps! You can now see Citi Bike stations and available bikes in your biking directions.
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Love LOVE *love* seeing @CitiBikeNYC integrated into Google Maps trip planning.
In solidarity with tonight’s Solidarity Ride at Grand Army Plaza, we’ll waive overtime fees on rides exceeding 30 min (45 min for members) until 9 PM.
Standard pricing applies: bit.ly/3h99bLe.
It’s our 10th birthday 🎂!
It all started in 2013 & since then:
1800+ stations have been installed 🚲
339M miles have been ridden 🚴♂️
We set a yearly ridership record of 31M rides in 2022! 🎉
It’s amazing how many Citi Bike enthusiasts we have! Thank YOU for all the love 🚲💙
We’re making history together, Citi Bike fam.
🗣️NEW RECORD!! Last Friday, we set a new single day ridership record with a total of… 123,185 rides!
Ride on 🚲💙
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BIG NEWS: The Citi Bike expansion map is here! 🎉
Our system will expand to a diverse range of communities, including the South Bronx and all of Upper Manhattan.
🚨 NEW RECORD 🚨 Last Thursday, we reached a total of 126,360 Citi Bike rides as the city recovered from Hurricane Ida.
Learn more about how our resilient system helped keep the city moving:
Classic New Yorkers. There's a #noreaster and you've already hit 5,000 Citi Bike trips today. Stay safe you hardy souls!
📰BREAKING NEWS.
This week, Citi Bike riders crushed all of our previous April daily ridership records by completing 122,419 trips on a single day! WOW! 🎉
Thanks to Commissioner Rodriguez, , and everyone who made this possible!
NYC, let’s keep showing up. For Justice Ride VII on July 18, we’ll waive overage fees 4-10 PM. We’re stronger together.
❄️❄️ Let it snow! The Citi Bike system is currently open, and we are continuing to monitor the weather. Reminder - When the light turns green 🟢 , your bike is properly docked. ❄️❄️
FYI - All #CitiBike stations run on solar power ☀️ and any high usage station can run completely on battery power for about 7 days!
A blackout is no match for Citi Bike 🚲
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We’re happy to report that Citi Bike is operating as normal during the power outage. You are able to access bikes and docks as you normally would.
We joined this morning to make a BIG announcement about our plans for the upcoming L train disruption.
We’re adding not only more bikes and stations, but special pedal-assist bikes to travel over the Williamsburg bridge ⚡️⚡️
NEWS: Citi Bike has arrived in Bushwick! 🚲 Over the next few weeks, 25 new stations will be installed throughout this neighborhood.
Thanks to , & for helping us expand bike share access in Brooklyn— just in time for riding season!
70 MILLION (and counting!) Citi Bike rides have been taken since our system launched in 2013!
This is equivalent to more than 123 million miles ridden and 5 billion calories burned (that's 18 million slices of New York pizza!) 🍕
Fall in love with Citi Bike and you might just fall in love. 😉
Here's how Citi Bike has taken one man's dating game to the next level. 👇
Say 👋to our newest Citi Bike stations in Sunnyside/Woodside! Nearly 70 new stations have already been installed in Queens this year! Check out our map in the app for real-time updates to see stations near you.
Look outside and you’ll see bikes on the front lines of this fight against racial injustice — where they belong. In support of Justice Ride IV with tomorrow, we'll be waiving overage fees from 3–9 PM. Let’s keep this movement going together.
We've just installed our 1000th Citi Bike station in The Bronx! 🎉 Hop on a bike and tag your favorite place ride. 🚲 💨
So much thanks to for coming out on this gorgeous day in NYC and trying on of our new ebikes!
A little cold has nothing on our riders! Despite bone-chilling temperatures in the city yesterday, there were over 10,000 Citi Bike rides taken. 🚲
Shoutout to our winter warriors! ❄️
🚲 Over 3,000 new classic bikes just hit the streets. And we’ve got more on the way. Have you ridden a Citi Bike bicycle yet? Get out there!
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Thinking of everyone affected by the horrible incident downtown today. We're with you, NYC.
The secret's out! 🙌
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UPDATE: Ebikes will return this winter. We apologize for the delay, but we're taking extra time to make sure they’re safe & ready for NYC streets. And when they return, ebike pricing will be lower than previously announced.
More details in blog & below: citibikenyc.com/blog/electric-
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. also found that space for motor vehicles often occupies more than 75% of street space [3/6]
Citi Bike fam, we ended August with another new monthly ridership record - over 3.7 MILLION RIDES!
Any predictions for September!?
July - 3.5 million 😎
August - 3.7 million 🤩
September - ⁉️
We recognize what a challenging time this is for the City and are appreciative of all the work by our public officials on behalf of New Yorkers. We are required by to end service at 6pm tonight.
We're celebrating #Pride with a new look. Over 100 Citi Bike Pride bikes are dropping around the city! Let us know you've spotted one - take a ride, snap a pic, and tag us! 🚲💙🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Big News: We surpassed 30 Million rides since launch and broke another daily record with 56,286 trips yesterday!
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In partnership with , we analyzed the space that Citi Bike uses on NYC streets. We found that our stations account for less than 0.5% of the total curb space. [2/6]
Did You Know?
Switching from taxis & private cars to bicycles and public transportation would save 150 million pounds of CO2 emissions a year - the equivalent of planting a forest 1.3 times the size of Manhattan!
Read more on that study here:
Citi Bike family, we apologize for our service yesterday morning.
Due to unseasonably high temperatures and people opting for fresh air on a bike, system ridership was 60% greater than March of last year.
We are working hard to boost dock availability as quickly as possible.
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When the system is shut down to new trips, anyone who has a bike out can still return it to a station. We’ll share another update about service as soon as we can. We encourage you to check local transit schedules. We’ll resume service at 5am tomorrow.
Averaging 5 trips per day more than those with the traditional basket, our new basket bikes have become an instant hit with our riders. What are you putting in yours? (📷 potthoaj & sarahteitler)
From 6K bikes in 2013 to almost 30K bikes now, we are so thrilled that we get to continue to be a part of the city's streets.
Thanks for an amazing 10 years Citi Bike fam! 🥳
We know quarantine has been hard on the dating life, but...
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The first jolt you get with that first pedal on an electric citi bike is arousing
You may have noticed a few stations missing on the map. Our stations are solar powered, and we're seeing more stations out of service than usual due the winter weather and limited daylight that powers the panels. Our team is working to get these stations operating ASAP. 🚲💙