Journal editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz has become the most blogged-about nemesis of New York's new bike-sharing program yet, with media critics, liberal opinionators, and regular old bike-riders jumping on her comments about transportation "totalitarians." What gives?
NYC's new Citibike program (which — yes, D.C. people — isn't unique) has been received with a mix of emotions. But one thing is clear: after less than a week, it's already in heavy use, if the real-time data the city makes available is any indicator.
This is what happens when ink-stained wretches get on two wheels. Following months of fevered warnings about Citibike, the city's famously excitable tabloids have begun to reverse course about the DayGlo-blue bikes installed throughout New York. You know, now that they've actually ridden them.
The New York City's new shared bike program was set to launch Monday morning, but crews ran into trouble before the first rider could legally attempt to pedal away. Someone illegally pedalled off with one of the bikes late Sunday evening.
Well-to-do opponents of New York City's long-awaited Citibike program have notched several significant victories against New York's Department of Transportation over the past week — after a month-plus of delirious outrage, a small journalism scandal, and destructive vandalism.
The long-awaited Citibike bike-sharing program is scheduled to debut in New York on May 27. To the denizens of brownstone Brooklyn and Greenwich Village, however, the Citibike program amounts to an urban insurrection.
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New York 's Transportation Department and Citibank jointly introduced their bike share program Monday, but rather than drool over the shiny blue bikes, journalists focused on the prices, which some thought to be too high, but some of their arguments ignored or undersold the way cities intend people to use the bike share system.
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