Tell DOT Where Citi Bikes Should Go In Washington Heights

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — This week will be the last chance for residents to let the city's Department of Transportation know where Washington Heights and Inwood's first Citi Bike stations should go.

Transportation officials who have been collecting ideas about where to put the bike-sharing stations when Citi Bike expands to uptown Manhattan will wrap up their survey of residents on Friday, officials announced last week.

The survey lets residents who live in Inwood and Washington Heights suggest a specific spot for a Citi Bike station in an online map or give their general feedback about the bike service's expansion to the neighborhood, which was announced last year as part of an initiative to make Citi Bike citywide.

DOT officials also held open information sessions through Community Board 12 last month.

Community Board 12's neighborhoods are the latest in upper Manhattan and the Bronx that DOT opened a survey for.

Citi Bike's expansion plans to bring their stations to Harlem, Hamilton Heights, Sugar Hill, Washington Heights and Inwood in Manhattan and Mott Haven, Melrose, Port Morris, Highbridge, Claremont, Morrisania, Longwood, Concourse and Mt. Eden in The Bronx by the year 2023.

Citi Bike docks currently extend as far north as 130th Street in Manhattan and to several neighborhoods in northern Brooklyn and western Queens.

Details of the expansion, announced last summer, came on the heels of a report showing that Citi Bike's current service area serves a largely white, affluent population while shutting out poor people of color.

Annual Citi Bike memberships run $169 for unlimited 45-minute rides, though public housing residents and food-stamp recipients can get one for $5 a month. Cyclists can also buy single rides for $3 or day passes for $12.

Citi Bike has proven popular in its six years of operation — riders logged more than 1.9 million trips in May, more than triple the 618,572 recorded in June 2013.

To learn how to use the "Suggest a Station" map read the department's "Feedback Map Instructions."

The feedback portal for Community Board 12 will officially close Friday around noon.