BIKE STATION ON MANHATTAN AVENUE BETWEEN AINSLIE AND DEVOE STREET

LISTEN AND WATCH (CLICK LINK BELOW) THE NEWS STORY, COVERING THIS ISSUE, FROM NEWS12 BROOKLYN - NEWSREPORTER FAITH GRAHAM:

 

 https://brooklyn.news12.com/new-citi-bike-station-causes-community-unease

 

The NYC Bike Share Program is causing chaos in NYC, especially in front of residential properties. A Bike Station has been installed on our stretch of Manhattan Avenue, between Ainslie and Devoe Streets, Brooklyn, NY, going across/in front of four properties, including mine. We have lost 100 plus feet of much needed and much used parking space.

This insane plan is a danger for elders who cannot safely walk from their front doors (and vice versa) to waiting cars, cabs or access-a-ride without navigating in between and/or around these bikes. 

All residents on these four properties are blocked from immediate access to their street, and the NYPD, FDNY and EMS will have to navigate around this bike station in order to get to these residents in an emergency.

What about furniture and appliance deliveries? Sidewalk repairs/construction/cement trucks - no access to the sidewalk. We can no longer hook up a garden hose to wash our cars in front of our homes. What about snow removal? No room to push the snow into the street.

We now have parking and safety issues; garbage issues in and around the bikes and bike station; noise issues as the bikes are removed and put back on the bike racks; The constant clanging of bikes, especially at night, while we are sleeping, and right in front of our bedroom windows, is causing a noise issue way beyond the decibel pitch acceptable during evening hours. 

The DOT is okay with their reckless bike program and they refuse to compromise with us in relocating this bike station to a commercial property, a park, a vacant lot, a school, etc...all available spaces within this same vicinity. These spaces have wide sidewalks to place the bike station on which would keep both bikers and drivers happy, saving much needed parking space. 

The DOT should be defunded for their role in hurting residents on residential properties and causing chaos on our streets. They are pushing the Green New Deal, and trying desperately to get rid of cars. Communism in America.

GREAT ARTICLE:

https://gothamist.com/news/dot-is-not-god-it-is-possible-to-get-citi-bike-racks-removed