Despite Citi Bike's well-intentioned offer to cut annual memberships from $95 to $60 for public housing residents, there remains the slight issue that there aren't docking stations near the vast majority of the city's NYCHA complexes, particularly those uptown. The distribution of the racks aside, even when free helmets were being handed out near Rutgers Houses on the Lower East Side, most of the folks in line to get them were not residents but instead (to put it politely) rather affluent. The embattled bike share program has been accused of being a manipulative pawn of a totalitarian nanny state and also discriminating against overweight people, but could inequity in access actually be a fair criticism? [Runnin' Scared; previously]
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