December 29, 2024 - New York City Mayor Eric Adams, New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, and Lyft today announced plans to expand and improve Citi Bike to meet growing ridership demand and help ensure New Yorkers across the city have equitable access to this system.
Beginning in the fall of 2025, Citi Bike will add more than 250 new stations and will bring 2,900 new bikes into service, about half of which will be electric bicycles — bringing Citi Bike service to more than 900,000 additional New Yorkers. When the expansion completes, there will be a Citi Bike station within a five-minute walk of more than 5.6 million New Yorkers, or 64 percent of New York City’s residential population.
As the program has expanded, it’s become the fastest-growing transportation network in the city’s history with over 246 million all-time rides. Lyft and the city have doubled the system’s number of stations from 1,000 in August 2020 to 2,150 in November 2024. In October of 2024, the system set a monthly record with over 5.1 million rides, up 143 percent compared to October 2019. A record-breaking 193,645 Citi Bike rides took place on September 20, 2024.
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