NYC Bike Shelter.
While tooling around Union Square yesterday, I stumbled upon what I thought was a brand new bus shelter, but what turned out to be a bike shelter.
In response to the ever growing number of cyclists and to promote cycling as a healthy, environmentally-sustainable form of transportation, DOT will work with our Coordinated Street Furniture vendor, Cemusa, to install 37 Bicycle Parking Structures around the City by the end of the year. Each shelter will contain stainless steel bike racks for eight bikes.
And, sure enough;
The design closely resembles the award-winning Bus Shelter, using the same high-quality materials.
Umm, thank you NYCDOT, but perhaps build the shelters to house more than 8 bikes?
The city has been commited to adding 200 miles of bike lanes in 3 years, a project which should be completed by 2009. And that's awesome, seriously. But stats like this and this indicate more and more people are biking not only because it's cool, but because it's a better alternative that driving and a (usually) less stressful alternative to MTA.
Because this is a people-first blog, committed to servicing you, current city .pdf bike maps can be viewed and downloaded here.
