Overview
- About 1,600 of roughly 2,200 Citi Bike stations remain buried in snow and ice two weeks after the Jan. 25 blizzard.
- Lyft says crews have cleared more than 600 stations and are targeting about 300 per day, but re-plowing, hard ice, and safety pauses have slowed work, prompting use of pickaxes and sledgehammers.
- Iced-in docks have blocked battery-swapping teams, curbing e-bike availability even where stations are partly accessible.
- Riders report the app showing bikes and docks as available despite snowed-in hardware, and many protected bike lanes remain impassable, though sanitation officials said specific corridors would be cleared Tuesday night.
- Cycling continued at notable levels with 168,441 DOT counter trips recorded Jan. 25–Feb. 9 and tens of thousands of Citi Bike rides per day, as scrutiny grows over who clears bike-share infrastructure under Lyft’s contract.