Citibike price increases (today for everything except annual pass; 1/29 for annual)

Submitted by photog679 t3_104h0ub in nyc

Summary of the changes:

Reduced Fare Bike Share members: No changes to the Reduced Fare Bike Share Program monthly cost. Extra time fees for rides, beyond the included time of 45 mins, will increase to $0.17 per minute. Ebike fees will increase to $0.06 per minute.

Citi Bike annual members: Annual membership will increase to $205/year. Extra time fees for rides, beyond the included time of 45 mins, will increase to $0.17 per minute. Ebike fees will increase to $0.17 per minute. There is no change on the cap for ebike rides for members: capped at $3 for rides 45 minutes or less that enter or exit Manhattan (all other ebike rides are $0.17 per minute and uncapped).

Lyft Pink All Access: No change in annual membership price. Extra time fees for rides, beyond the included time of 45 minutes, will increase to $0.17 per minute. Ebike fees will increase to $0.17 per minute.

Lyft Pink: No change in monthly or annual membership price. No change to number of included bike rides: twelve free unlocks per year. Extra time fees, for rides beyond the included time of 30 minutes, will increase to $0.17 per minute. Ebike fees will increase to $0.17 per minute.

Non-member Single Ride: Unlock fee will increase to $4.49. Extra time fees, for rides beyond the included time of 30 mins, will increase to $0.26 per minute. Ebike fees will increase to $0.26 per minute.

Non-member Day Pass: Day Pass price will increase to $19. No change in extra time fees. Ebike fees will increase to $0.26 per minute.

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drpvn t1_j34z61a wrote

Single ride at $4.50 now—only a 50 cent increase but I have it say that’s a psychological barrier that is probably going to make me use these things a lot less.

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mrturdferguson t1_j3524jn wrote

Yearly is the only way I can see it making sense.

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Chimera-0ne t1_j3594y6 wrote

I might be an idiot here, but at $205 for the year, why wouldn’t you just buy a bike?

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mrturdferguson t1_j35b7tq wrote

Rain. Flats. Locks. Choice of multiple ways of transport in a day. Theft. Spontaneity. Etc.

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azspeedbullet t1_j35an51 wrote

the biggest problem i have is no storage for the bike in my tiny apartment :(

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Chimera-0ne t1_j35avj1 wrote

Ah, that makes sense. No wall you could mount it on ?

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coyote_snap t1_j35jiu3 wrote

i have a bike and a citi bike membership. its really convenient when you bike somewhere then take a train back.

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Imnottheassman t1_j35q4dd wrote

I bike a lot — road bike, cargo bike for transporting kids, beat-up steel frame commuter bike — and still find citibike invaluable for commutes and quick rides as needed.

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EdgeOrnery6679 t1_j360klb wrote

People dont have space to keep a bike inside of their apartment, if you keep it outside it WILL get stolen or ateast get its wheels stripped off.

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eckoooz t1_j380oo3 wrote

I have a bike but use Citibike when I'm going out drinking or taking some other mode of transport when I don't want to worry about bringing it on the subway/ferry. 205 for a year is worth it for distances when I don't have my bike and the walk is a longer time than I'd like.

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HerrBarrockter t1_j390ibx wrote

Bike maintenance over a year will usually cost more than that, especially if you ride in all weather. The salt and slush of winter destroys bikes, so it's nice to be able to ride through that and not worry about repairs. Plus it can't get stolen.

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eclectic5228 t1_j37qrtv wrote

I only bike home from work, so the rental is really easy for me. $205 might seem like a lot, but it's cheaper than subway. I save $$$ in subway costs over a year. So I guess it depends on your baseline.

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drpvn t1_j35ugy0 wrote

And I have no plans to add a $200 a year subscription (plus additional costs) to my life.

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TeamMisha t1_j38h1n3 wrote

I get they want to push people to go annual but IMO the single use rides should be as cheap as the subway for the folks who maybe only need to ride every now and again. Someone taking a bike over say calling a FHV is a good thing. Also nice if your subway commute on one day goes to shit due to an incident, you can simply take a bike instead for the same price. More options are better! CitiBike has so much more potential but it's being gimped by many factors such as Lyft's greed, the city choosing not to subsidize it, and ConEd not working with Lyft to have docks that charge ebikes. Expansion also needs to speed up, and we need way more ebikes.

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thebruns t1_j37btzo wrote

Insane pricing.

For comparison, €5 gets you the 24-hour pass in Paris

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DevChatt t1_j375wfx wrote

I feel like all the people getting 2 years free of Lyft pink all access with the CSR may have had a effect making it expensive for everyone else

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story_island t1_j37poay wrote

I assume it is partially that and maybe also partially reduced pricing for low income folks. Don't know how many people fit into those two groups, though, relative to the overall size of the user base.

Still, make it cheap for too many people and you have to make it expensive for someone else.

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photochic1124 t1_j38f45e wrote

They don't advertise this and I'm not sure how well known it is but there is a corporate discount program https://citibikenyc.com/pricing/citibikeforbusiness.

Your company signs up and pays the discounted membership for you. I have it where it's 50/50 split but I don't see it on this page.

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112-411 t1_j39zcy5 wrote

A pity Lyft doesn’t lower the annual cost in an attempt to enlarge the pie.

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phil917 t1_j3b25fc wrote

Just recently canceled my annual membership. The bike quality has degraded so hard over the past year. Almost every bike I checked out as of late had some issue ranging from cut up seats, messed up brakes, dented/banged up/defaced frame, and most annoyingly, just being super hard to pedal and get up to a decent speed without exerting a ton of effort (when I did occasionally get a “good” bike, the difference in ride quality was night and day)

Plus 9 times out of 10 it took attempting several different bikes before I was even able to undock.

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iheartennui t1_j37nm3p wrote

The city needs to eminent domain this and make it free

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story_island t1_j37ozwz wrote

If you think the service quality is bad now, wait until it becomes a free and managed by the city.

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iheartennui t1_j395oqw wrote

there are some pretty great free things managed by the city -- think of say parks -- so I don't see why not

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eclectic5228 t1_j37r2lw wrote

That's not how that works.

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story_island t1_j39a3jr wrote

It doesn't have to but if the program doesn't have enough funding or if it is saddled with a bunch of unreasonable mandates (both things that happen to government run programs), it could wind up being terrible.

I would also say, if it were to ever be city run, why make it free? I'd rather they keep it affordable and focus on improving service quality.

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