Unlike its counterparts in other cities, Citi Bike is privately financed. But amid a push for it to serve more neighborhoods, and with city law requiring the company to publicize its finances soon, some believe a move toward partial public funding is likely.
After spending some time in the cyclists’ paradise of Boulder, Colo., a New Yorker returns to the difficult and sometimes dangerous practice of biking in New York—and finds that bikers here ride closer to the heart of their city.
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