Brickbat: Bicycle Friendly

When New York City workers installed a new bicycle sharing station on West 22nd Street they found several cars legally parked in that location. So they had the cars towed to nearby metered spaces, all without notifying the owners. Those individuals returned to find their cars missing, and when they finally did locate them, many found they'd been ticketed for not putting money in the meters.

Comments

[Snark Plissken]

When workers installed one of the much-heralded bike-sharing stations on West 22nd Street near 10th Avenue, they put it right in front of the brownstones, impacting the entrances for homeowners and tenants.

Not in my front yard!!!

[DJF]

Seems like the bike share program only covers a very limited part of NYC. I am not that familiar with NYC but it seems that the bikes are available in the parts of NYC where stopping and frisking was rare.

http://a841-tfpweb.nyc.gov/bikeshare/station-map/

[JD the elder]

There is some truth to that. On the other hand, NYC is big, and it would have been unrealistic to implement Citibike everywhere at once. It mostly got rolled out in the areas that are particularly densely populated and densely served by public transit. Also, the Upper East Side and Upper West Side are fairly white, wealthy, and not stop-and-frisky, and they didn't get Citibike in Phase I either.

[Rich]

Just a doggone minute. If those cars were *legally* parked, their owners should be suing the workers city for GTA, damages, emotional distress, ....

[Brandybuck]

Because "fuck you", that's why.

[Will Nonya]

Now that's, unexpected...

[Swiss Servator, Zurichmania!]

Then ask your programers to expand your imagination algorithm a bit.

[UnCivilServant]

I never liked this bot, I miss the old ones.

[Rich]

Sometimes man, you jsut have to roll with ti.

[Old Man With Candy]

Or with the beautiful bean footage.