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COURIER L 10 IFE, FEBRUARY 5-11, 2021
CYCLE OF
DEVELOPMENT
Ridgeites welcome Citi Bike
Citi Bike will soon construct seven new Citi Bike stations on Bay Ridge’s northern border.
City of New York
BY JESSICA PARKS
Seven new Citi Bike docks will soon
pepper the northern edge of Bay Ridge
near Leif Erickson Park — marking
the bike share program’s fi rst foray
into the neighborhood, city transportation
offi cials announced on Tuesday.
Community Board 10 members
mostly welcomed the expansion into
their neighborhood, but questioned
why offi cials did not bring the bikeshare
program further into their district
instead of only at its northern
border.
“If the stations are going to be basically
going over the border of our district,
it doesn’t help us a lot from the
point of view of getting around our
district,” said community board member
Stephen Harrison. “It helps us get
around Community Board 7.”
But the greater area will not see
Citi Bike stations on their roads or
sidewalks likely until after 2024, when
work is expected to be complete on the
private-public partnership’s Phase
Three expansion — which, in Brooklyn,
focuses most of its resources on
building into Sunset Park and Windsor
Terrace.
“We are eager to expand to all
parts of the city, but unfortunately,
we do have limited resources,” said
Lisa Morasco, a representative with
the Department of Transportation.
“In terms of the way that we created
these Phase 3 borders we knew that
we wanted to get down to as much of
south Brooklyn as possible but really
set a foundation for the next phase of
Citi Bike expansion.”
The seven stations presented to
the community board are part of the
department’s draft plan — meaning
offi cials are continuing to accept
feedback, and locations may be adjusted,
according to DOT reps.
An updated plan may include a
location to support the 69th Street
Ferry, upon community board members
urging as the ferry stop is becoming
a transportation hub for the
neighborhood’s residents.
“We are actually in conversation
with EDC now and we’re working towards
placing a station very close to
the ferry,” Morasco said. “So hopefully
when we release an updated
plan that location will be revealed,
but it is still in the coordination process.”
Some residents raised concerns
that one of the proposed bike dock locations
— which are expected to have
an average capacity of 22 bicycles
— on Wakeman Place will overtake
valuable parking spaces on their
block and requested the installation
of a protected bike lane not follow in
the dock’s wake.
“I’ve seen protected bike lanes and
they take half of a block of parking,”
said Ellis Shrem. “And they usually
follow these stations.”
Construction for the seven locations
in Bay Ridge’s Community
Board 10 district— four of which
will be located on the sidewalk and
the other three will be erected in the
street — is projected to begin in late
February or early March.
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