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.

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

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

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

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

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

Yeah, that makes sense.

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

You may qualify for a highly reduced price. If you receive SNAP or NYCHA, your citibike fee is $5/month.

https://citibikenyc.com/community-programs/reducedfare

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.

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

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.

Yeah I didn’t think this through lol

Makes sense, thank you.

No place to park your bike safely

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

Insane pricing.

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

welcome to america :/

Csr?

Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card

Correct. Sorry i should have written that out

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The city needs to eminent domain this and make it free

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

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.

P-EBT cards work too 🫣

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.

That's not how that works.

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.

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.

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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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.

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

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.

Fair enough.

I thought the same and bought a bike. It was stolen. Now I use citib8ke.

Valid.

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

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.