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Starting Next Week, You Can Help Choose Bike-Share Station Locations

New Yorkers submitted dozens of suggestions for bike-share station locations in Chelsea alone. Next week, the Chelsea community will meet to determine exactly where stations actually end up. Image: NYC DOT.

When bike-share launches this summer, 10,000 new public bicycles will be available at 600 stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The stations will typically be located about 1,000 feet apart from each other, ensuring a quick walk to a public bike from anywhere below 79th Street and in northwest Brooklyn. The exact location of the stations -- this corner or that one, on the street or on the sidewalk -- is largely up to each neighborhood to decide. The hyper-local planning begins next week at a workshop for the Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen neighborhoods [PDF] and continues throughout the service area over the next two months.

Last fall, DOT officials said that public comments will help determine where to place bike-share stations. Community boards can say "the following locations are ‘hell no’ for whatever reasons,” DOT Policy Director Jon Orcutt told Manhattan CB 2 last October. The stations have to be spaced appropriately and follow certain guidelines -- no stations on narrow sidewalks or in parking spaces on busy avenues, for example -- but within those constraints locals will get to choose where the bikes go.

Next Tuesday, the city's first bike-share planning workshop will take place. Hosted by Manhattan Community Board 4, State Senator Tom Duane and Assembly Member Richard Gottfried, the event will be an important opportunity for people who live or work in Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen to help shape this significant addition to the New York City streetscape. The difference between a bike-share system where most stations are on the sidewalk and one where most stations are in the curbside lane may be determined at these meetings, for example.

After Tuesday's meeting, the next workshop will be the following week and cover Manhattan Community Board 2's district: SoHo, Tribeca and the West Village. For a full and up-to-date listing of the workshops, including time and location, head over to DOT's bike-share timeline.

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