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Sexy Citi Bike Stats, One Month In
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John Del Signore
Published Jun 27, 2013
Modified Jun 27, 2013
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Published Jun 27, 2013
Modified Jun 27, 2013
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Today is Citi Bike's one month anniversary! To mark the occasion, the DOT has sent out a "statistical report card" on the program, which now has over 100,000 members. Here's the propaganda:
- Number of trips (as of 5 p.m. June 26): 528,991, more than the population of Miami, Atlanta, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Oakland, Sacramento and hundreds of other US cities
- Number of trips in the last seven days: 200,823, roughly equivalent to the entire population of Akron, Ohio, or Des Moines, Iowa
- Total annual, weekly and daily subscriptions purchased: 113,692, nearly the population of Berkeley, California; 50,000 annual members, equal to the population of Hoboken
- Estimated miles traveled to date: 1.28 million, the equivalent of 50 trips around the Earth
- Estimated number of calories burned since launch (assumes an average of 40 calories per mile biked): 50 million, the equivalent of 91,000 Big Macs or nearly 52,000 entire pints of Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia ice cream
- Average number of rides on each of the 6,000 Citi Bikes: 88
Of course, there are a number of interesting Citi Bike stats the government left out of its report, namely:
- Number of legal actions: At least three.
- Number of insane comparisons to the Taliban: One, but that one goes a long way.
- Volume of whining screeching from DUMBO: Deafening.
- Number of Citi Bike riders spotted on the car level of the Brooklyn Bridge: One, so far...
- Number of Soul Cycle classes given on docked Citi Bikes: One, which is MORE than enough.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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