NYC is dramatically different now, which is good. It's a testament to build it and they will come. All that bike infrastructure being built encouraged more riders, which then conditions drivers to be used to them more, and more infrastructure is built, and more riders ride, and more drivers are conditioned to sharing the road. And Citibike. This year in September Citibike broke their daily ridership record with 135,000 rides on one day, and they were averaging over 103,000 rides a day around then in general. That's around 700,000 Citibike rides a week, and that does not include a shit ton of people riding on their own bikes, which is a very large amount.
September puts a capstone on what has been a record-breaking summer for the Citi Bike program.
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Riding around NYC is truly the greatest way to explore it, weather permitting of course.
I snapped this photo while cruising on the west side greenway earlier this year. Two girls in dresses and dress shoes just casually pedaling uptown. Love seeing more and more of this stuff.
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