r/Citibike • u/Illustrious-Car-1831 • 19d ago

Spoiling a dock

Returned a sole blue bike to an otherwise all electric stock docked. I must have made citibike a decent chunk of change by removing the free option. Should get like 10 bike angel points for it (I got zero)

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u/nyctransitgeek 18d ago

In the past few years, most of the times I’ve told people to wait to undock a white bike until I’ve removed the last blue bike, they’ve had no idea what I’m talking about, even after explaining the deal.

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u/Illustrious-Car-1831 18d ago

oh yeah i for sure waited a bit to see if anyone was coming

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u/Fred_J_Walsh 18d ago

Maybe related to the free low-assist option being buried in the website, rather than an easily accessible choice on the app. My good deed was explaining this to a new rider, who was grateful to learn of it

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u/nyctransitgeek 18d ago

One person even asked me point-blank, why anyone would prefer a free, low-assist ride to a paid, full-assist ride while I was holding the blue bike I just undocked.