By Andres Viglucci
As it gets set to expand into Miami next month, DecoBike, the pioneering Miami Beach bike-share program, has stepped up its game by snagging a major sponsor: Citibank, the corporation that has underwritten the nation's biggest, best-known program in New York City.
That means Citi Bikes and their trademark blue likely will soon become a familiar sight across the Beach and up and down a dense urban corridor stretching all the way from Miami’s Upper East Side through downtown, Brickell and Coconut Grove.
The bike-share expansion into mainland Miami harkens a potential transformation of the city’s auto-dominated transportation landscape, building on an expanding network of designated bike lanes amid growing demand for alternate ways of getting around the urban core, which is rapidly becoming denser as droves of young people move into new high-rises.