In a very short time, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to show the
world that they are just as virtuous, well-intentioned and offended by
sloth as people in Copenhagen or Geneva or any other of a number of
cities where mindful living and wonderful yogurts reign. The city’s
long-anticipated bike share program is scheduled to make its debut in
May, allowing New Yorkers to pick up and deposit rental bikes at
hundreds of locations, most of them, so far, in some of the wealthiest
neighborhoods. Anyone waking up on a Sunday morning in TriBeCa, finding
nothing in her refrigerator and hankering to go to Smorgasburg in Dumbo,
Brooklyn, for instance, will now be able to do that with relative ease.
So is this really the time to complain — this, a moment when progressive
policy has had such an obvious victory? Virtually everything about the
city’s growing bike culture has prompted vigorous argument and even
fury. Now that the metal stalls and kiosks where bikes will be stationed
are turning up in parts of Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan, the theater
of operations in the war among cyclists and drivers and pedestrians has
expanded and multiplied and bred new factions, even though the bike
share program itself has been shown to have widespread support in
polling. Read on in the New York Times. Velo Mondial says: Bike Racks is also 'parking', just for more people.
Portland’s Alameda Bike Bus Turns One!
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On Earth Day 2022, Physical Education teacher Sam Balto - inspired by
Barcelona's Bici Bus - decided to attempt to start his own at his school in
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