Bike Rack Switcheroo: Remsen to Hicks

By on May 11, 2013 7:01 pm in Brooklyn Heights, News, Traffic, Transportation

As the photo shows, racks for the Citi Bike Share program have been placed along the west side of Hicks Street going south from Montague, in front of Heights Cafe, Dellarocco’s, and J McLaughlin. According to BHB Ten 2012 honoree Sahmi Rum, who mourns the loss of parking spaces, the racks were moved from Remsen Street because of complaints from residents of 60 Remsen, at the corner of Hicks and across the street from the racks’ previous location. As the photo below shows, that stretch of Remsen is now bike rack free.

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  • Bloomy

    This wrong way rider can sue all they want, it doesn’t mean they will win especially since they were the one breaking the law.

    Why would the city pay? If you rent a car and get into an accident you don’t sue Hertz, you sue the driver. This is no different.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton

    Very encouraging numbers.
    880,000 will very likely and 1,520,000 New Yorkers will somewhat likely, use the program

    That is potentially 2.4 million riders!
    MoronOrange is right, they will need more bike racks!

  • MonroeOrange

    So then they shouldn’t be programs that are a transportation alternative that are UNSAFE….what about this don’t you get! this program was given so little thought as to just how dangerous NYC is to ride a bike without a helmet..but keep spouting your nonsense.

  • MonroeOrange

    Another stat that is useless from you…..there are 8 million pedistrians in the city…not 8 million cyclist…so if you want to look at stats there is higher percentage of cyclist killed… so no people should not be required to wear a helmet when walking around…buy maybe you should be required to do so…..

  • Wiley E.

    As Martha Stewart might say, it is a “good thing” that the LICH ER is still open, patients will be rolling in soon after the renta-bikes start crashing in the hood.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton

    Actually, If you Google street view the front of 10 Clinton, you will see there was a concrete “guard rail” type barricade right where the bike rack now is. So that “loading zone” you speak of didn’t actually exist… at least not in recent history. Another one of your idiotic arguments bites the dust.

  • Joe A

    Who says it is UNSAFE? You? Is it risk free? Of course not but that is not the same thing as saying it is unsafe. People get injured with EVERY method of transportation. If you have to get from point A to point B there is a chance that something will collide with you in route whether you are on a bike, in a cab or just walking. I don’t understand why you don’t get it gramps?

  • Joe A

    Bike share programs actually end up making bike riding safer as the bike share program in Paris demonstrated:

    Citi Bike will only increase the amount of cyclists on the streets and, as a result, the potential for accidents. Ironically, however, that may make everyone safer, as a major factor in prevention is awareness. A study of Paris’ Velib bike-sharing program found that while bike traffic jumped 24 percent during the program’s first year, accidents only increased seven percent—a net increase, but a per-rider decrease. (Paris’ bike-share program is the most similar to New York’s in both the number of bikes and character of the city.) As bikers become more engrained into the fabric of the streets, the drivers of motor vehicles grow more used to seeing—and avoiding—them.

    http://www.psmag.com/health/will-bike-sharing-programs-kill-more-people-57410/

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton
  • petercow

    I’m not on the board. I didn’t approve or disapprove any sight.

    I’m just saying there was ample opportunity for input.

  • petercow

    Drives racing to make lights, is precisely why we need Bike Share, and more bikes on the street, generally.

    Martha Atwater wasn’t on a bike. In fact, she wasn’t even in the street.

  • Eddyde

    Actually there is a benefit for early enrollment. Only those who sign up before May 17th, get to ride the system the first week of the launch, starting May 27th. All others will have to wait another week to try it out.

  • Wiley E.

    Great Idea! Move a bike-rack in front of the Jubilee Senior Center at 55 Pierrepont Street.

    Too many old people in the Heights. Time to turn-over some rent controlled apartments for young rich people coming to BH from Ohio.

  • PB

    Wiley, there have been over 180,000 trips for over half a million miles. Only one known accident and zero hospitalizations.

    What say you now.

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