CITIBIKES
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It had been a year since I spent any time in New York City. But the first thing that caught my eye on Thursday morning, walking out of Penn Station was this huge bank of blue bicycles.
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They are CitiBikes! You slide your credit card into a slot in a nearby kiosk, and one of the banked bikes is unlocked. Your card is charged $4 if you return it to any other bank of CitiBikes anywhere in the city in 30 minutes. If you're late, there's a charge. If you're early, you get a credit.
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On the one-mile walk to the Javits Convention Center, we encountered MANY such bike banks.
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Good Idea?
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Uploaded on October 27, 2013