The Citi Bike in NYC program is growing. It has not been able to keep up with demand. Docking stations are often one to three blocks apart, and some have 60 bikes each. (20 blocks equals one mile.) Often, when you reach a station to get a bike, it is empty. Then you walk to the next and get a bike, ride to your destination, and the docking station is full and you have to find another one with an empty slot. The managing company uses trucks and bikes towing trailers to balance the bikes throughout the day. Most of the problems the system has are results of unexpected success.

In the program's most recent expansion, usage went to capacity almost immediately. In other words, people who didn't have it before started using it in numbers that would make you think they had had it for a long time.

[h=1]Citi Bike Logged 10 Million Rides In 2015[/h]