How a crew of hundreds maintains one of the world’s largest bike share systems.
Writing in Curbed, John Surico highlights the more than 1,000 Citi Bike employees who keep the system running and e-bikes charged as the summer peak season kicks off.
“In June alone, the average is 165,000 rides a day, and the teams at Citi Bike and Lyft, which owns the bike-share system, believe it will hit 200,000 before the year is out.” The company attributes this success in part to its new fleet of 15,000 e-bikes, which make up 65 percent of trips in the system.
For now, charging the batteries requires taking dead batteries to a Long Island City warehouse, then returning them to the bikes. Soon, Lyft plans to install electrified charging docks to reduce the need for bringing batteries back to the warehouse. According to Surico, “The company has projected that doing so at just 20 percent of its stations would replace 90 percent of swaps.”
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