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Made in NYC. TPV Noted. Bikes Come and Go. Bikers Remain. Happy for Now

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A few weeks ago I wrote that:

A douchebag billionaire mayor, the Bloomberg, cared enough for the Lower East Side New Yorkers (Loisaida) to approve Citi Bikes station all over. Loisaida is a neighborhood long-known for its soon-to-come gentrification. Last year, in April 2013, one such station arrived on East 2nd street,  right across from one of the three city-wide gifted and talented NYC public schools, serving both teachers and parents who do not drive SUVs.

EV Grieve, a neighborhood blog was so impressed by the move that it described the event in mythical terms “a Citi Bike station arrived overnight”.

loisaidaNow, a year later, the people’s mayor whose name has aristocratic spelling, de Blasio, seems to reverse the trend, or quietly witness a decrease in the Citi Bike stations from the very parts of the City his predecessor tried to force to go biking.  Also overnight, the Citi Bike station previously located at 2nd Street corner with Avenue C, right across Houston serving the teachers and parents of the G&T public school, NEST+M, disappeared. The sad mourning morning was  March 20, 2014.

Mayor de Blasio, we understand that most of your campaign was nice words which you did not mean but really, leave the bikes alone. It’s the only piece of cake Loisaida residents can afford. If you don’t do it for us, do it for your predecessor. Don’t make him look good in your strongholds!

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I have to rectify this account and add: the bikes are back. The Mayor of the People, de Blasio, re-asphalted the street in question. Thanks Mayor! Next time tell you people to tell us, also your people, what’s going on.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Sorry about the bikes – I saw more bad news somewhere in the news recently, that there might not be financing to keep it going. The idea that bikes are somehow too expensive, in a city with a gigantic mechanized transit system and at least a few billionaires, seems ridiculous. First it wasn’t going to be popular, then it was going to be dangerous (versus cars?), then it was ugly ( versus cars…), and now it’s too expensive. 

  2. Actually, the bikes are back on 2nd street both corner with Avenue C and corner with Avenue B. de Blasio returned the bikes!!!

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