Council Member Felder questions DOT on Citi Bike usage analysis
Felder asks whether DOT regularly analyzes Citi Bike usage to remove underused bikes, observing unused bikes in his district and across the city. Weidenhoff notes her team is not responsible for Citi Bike but says there is data on every bike and dock, and offers to connect Felder with the relevant DOT team for more information.
I have two questions of a general nature.
Number one about the city bike, the program that's been around for many, many years.
Does DOT do a regular analysis to see the usage or not of those bikes?
And then...
For example, if after, I don't know, a year or two,
you have 20 bikes that have been sitting there for who knows, and one bike a week is being used, removing the bike, those bikes.
And the reason I ask is that I see in my own district and I see it all over the city.
There are certainly it's used in many places, but there are other places that it's just not for whatever reason.
And unless this is some sort of cultural art exhibit.
That the city has.
over about city bikes that are not used.
I'd like to, can you respond to that?
So our team is not responsible for City Bike, but we appreciate your question.
I can say that there is a big team at DOT.
Every single City Bike, there is data about where that bike is and the different docks.
And so we are happy to go back and have them provide you with a little bit more information about that.
I would appreciate that very much.