Who would have thought it possible? With New York set to get its own bikesharing system from the makers of Capital Bikeshare, a Gothamist writer trekked down to D.C. to see how our system works. And the kicker? The system, despite some of its flaws, elicited a begrudging compliment or two out of the New Yorker.
Ok, so the piece still included the line, "New York is not D.C., and thank god for that." But Lauren Evans liked the bike-finding app, the sturdiness of the bikes, and (sorta) liked how the bikes are rebalanced to ensure there's always a few bikes and a few empty docks where you need to go. "Citi Bike has assured patrons that it will be redistributing bikes from full racks to empty ones regularly. I hope it works better here than it does in D.C.—fisticuffs will ensue," she wrote. She must have tried a heavily-trafficked route; yours truly hasn't been "dockblocked" in months.
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