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Maybe instead of chicken entrails he used an old rusty bike chain?
Last week, Community Board 10′s Transportation Committee voted unanimously to request a number of new bike lanes for Bay Ridge, reports Noah Kazis for the soothsayer/ alternative transportation website Streetsblog. Continue reading »
A controversial bike lane on Prospect Park West in Park Slope (Image source: Kai Brinker via Flickr).
State Senate hopeful Andrew Gounardes has come out in favor of creating more bike lanes, as well as expanding Bay Ridge’s existing bike lane “network” to neighborhoods further north – such as Park Slope and Cobble Hill, writes Will Bredderman for Brooklyn Daily. Continue reading »
Last year's Tour De Brooklyn (Source: Wikipedia Commons)
The 8th Annual Tour De Brooklyn, a 21.5 mile bicycle ride through the County of Kings, will be pedaling its way through Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights – with a rest stop at Dyker Beach Park – this Sunday, June 3. Click Here For More, Including A PDF Map Of The Route
Everything old is new again. Behold, the future of bicycle parking. Photo: Etsy.com
The Department of Transportation is considering a proposal to reuse old-school parking meters – rendered obsolete by electronic muni-meters – as parking for bicycles, a move cheered by Third Avenue store owners, according to Brooklyn Daily. The proposal is supported by several people, including Third Avenue Merchants president Robert Howe and former chairman of Community Board 10, Bob Cassara. (Muni-meters are expected to be installed this fall.)
I was in Williamsburg this past Monday evening, where I can assure you, the local bike-riding population has already made substantial use of parking meters as bike racks. But then, Williamsburg has become the nation’s most important enclave of seventh-year seniors and other grown adults who aren’t. Will meters-as-bike-parking be embraced by the Bay Ridge community?
Anthony Loupos, owner of the newly-opened Glow Thai, told the Brooklyn Daily, “Last fall on a nice day we would see four or five tables per day come on bicycle.” Cassara added, “We should be doing more things like this. Any merchants who are against this aren’t informed about how having more people on bikes can increase business.”
Speaking for myself, I don’t have a car, but I have a bicycle. An increase of bicycle parking would be great for those trips that are a bit past walking distance, but not seemingly worth the hassle of getting on the subway or the bus. What do you think? Would this plan be a help or hindrance?