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New Bike Project Will Rid NYC Of Abandoned Locked Up Bicycles, With Your Help
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Christopher Robbins
Published May 2, 2012
Modified May 3, 2012
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Unlike Old Amsterdam, New Amsterdam lacks charming canals into which rusty bicycles can be tossed out of sight, so our bike-carcasses are left to rot on the street. If you call 311, the Department of Sanitation will pick up the bike within a week or so to recycle it, but in the last 18 months only 40 bikes have been removed. To illustrate that this is just a drop in the graveyard, WNYC's Transportation Nation has created a map of all the city's busted bikes hogging up prime bike-parking real estate based on submissions.
They've also got a sweet photo gallery of, uh, busted bike porn, if you're into that stuff (we won't judge). Email your photos of dead bikes to [email protected] and include the location. Hopefully the city will realize that 40 bikes in 18 months just ain't cutting it.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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