Thursday, March 10, 2011
News New York's Best Bike Infrastructure Planned in Staten Island
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:38 PM
You can't put in a bike lane in Brooklyn without causing a borough-wide shouting matches, rivaling op-eds and lawsuits, but in Staten Island's former dump, future stunning park Freshkills, you can build beautiful solar-powered, lime-green bike maintenance stations and nobody will say a thing.
Architect's Newspaper's A/N Blog reports that James Corner Field Operations (designers of the Freshkills masterplan, as well as landscaping on the High Line) have designed the fancy bike maintenance stations and resting areas pictured for the rejuvenated landfill. The galvanized steel forms will feature vending machines for bike maintenance accessories and related equipment (tire pumps, please?) on one side, and benches for cyclists and pedestrians on the other.
For now there are no plans to deploy these helpful, pleasantly designed structures anywhere else in the city, but wouldn't it be nice to have public pumps and Allen wrench distributors in Brooklyn Bridge Park? Goodness knows they need all the extra revenue generators they can get. (Curbed)
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