Issue 01: Bike Share

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Bike Hugger Magazine
20 min readMay 22, 2017

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By David J. Schloss

The Citi Bike program came to New York City in fits and starts. It’s now an enormous success.

The Williamsburg Bridge in Manhattan is deceptively steep and the rain pours down on me in sheets as I lumber up the bike path astride a bright blue Citi Bike. Below me a subway rattles down the elevated tracks, the passengers warm and dry in the face of a massive spring thunderstorm.

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