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Fresh Kills Park Will Be Very Bike Friendly
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John Del Signore
Published Mar 9, 2011
Modified Mar 9, 2011
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You'll recall that the city is turning the Fresh Kills landfill into a massive new 2,200 park that will be almost three times the size of Central Park. (Don't laugh, the renderings are beautiful.) The park will be opened in phases over the next quarter century, but we've already got a look at some of the amenities we can look forward to. Shiny new pedestrian shelters and bike maintenance shelters, equipped with vending machines selling bike repair necessities, will "dot the landscape," according to Architect's Newspaper, which elaborates:
The benches made of torrefied (baked) wood are attached to a dividing wall made of galvanized steel two by fours spaced about six inches apart. These bike stations, along with new “comfort stations” (a.k.a. restrooms), will be off the grid, so solar panels atop the structures will provide the energy needed to power lights and equipment.
Well, that's very nice, but will there be free parking and car repair shelters, too?
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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