This is a very long bikeshare station

Reader Steve sent along a photograph of the 67-dock station New York has installed at Penn Station:

If you’re the nation’s largest city, you’ll probably have the nation’s longest bikeshare station.

Imagine what it will look like once it’s filled with bikes. One of the most popular styles of Capital Bikeshare photograph is the one looking down a long row:

New York will launch Citibike on May 27, Memorial Day. Annual members will be able to use it for the first week, and then daily and weekly memberships go on sale on June 2.

Speaking of a lot of bikes, I’ve seen no announcement yet about whether New York will do a big launch event like DC’s, where all the bikes started in one plaza and groups of people rode them out to the various stations:

Now that would be a lot of bikes.