Everywhere you turn you see them in the city. These long docking stations of blue city bikes have taken over the city landscape. Now as someone who is a self-proclaimed work out lover, you think I'd be all over this new form of public transportation. But actually....I really really dislike biking! Ha so sadly, Citi Bike will remain unused by me.Now I don't dislike all forms of biking. Along the beach, along isolated bike paths, stationary bikes...those are all fun. But biking within a city? Um, no. Way to scary! I am completely scared of getting hit by a NYC taxi. I mean, have you seen how crazy those things are? Plus, I am totally klutzy so it just doesn't seem like a great idea for me to be riding within the absolutely crazy NYC traffic.
Then again, even if I was really into the whole city riding thing, I'm not sure I would become a member of Citi Bike. Now the base pricing seems fine to me: $95 annual, $25 7-day, and $9.95 24-hour. But I don't know about you, but I think the coolest thing of the Citi Bike program would be the ability to bike from uptown to downtown, or to Coney Island, or any other long bike ride. But the program isn't meant for that. It's meant for only short quick 30-min max rides. If you go only 30 min over, it's not to bad...but if you go further than that, the charge really starts to escalate. So unless you have another docking station where you are planning on going (and though there are many of them, they aren't concentrated far uptown or far downtown), I'd be careful about going to far on those things. You might end up paying a price that made you wished you had taken that Taxi ride instead.
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