Plans<\/a> call for the docks to be near places like subway stations and parks.<\/p>\n“I do feel like it’s useful, because people don’t be wanting to walk a lot when it’s hot outside,” said Jaden Breaker, another East New York resident.<\/p>\n
“Not everyone has a car, trains are unreliable nowadays,” added Wilkins.<\/p>\n
Still, there is not a single protected bike lane in the entire East New York expansion area.<\/p>\n
Where there are protected bike lanes, News 12 cameras saw those being blocked by double-parked cars often.<\/p>\n
“It could be a little dangerous,” admitted Jennifer Brigade, who lives in the area.<\/p>\n
Wilkins, though, said she was confident in her safety, saying, “As long as you are safe and aware of your surroundings, you should be good.”<\/p>\n
Other areas could be a different story. Some of the planned docks – like the one near the Pennsylvania Avenue subway station- will be in places that have no bike lanes of any kind.<\/p>\n
“I just got hit by a car last week riding my bike,” said Pendarvis, “so, I don’t really see the relevance in having Citi Bikes but no bike lanes.”<\/p>\n
Residents also expressed concern over parking, with plans calling for a lot of the docks to be installed in the street, as opposed to the sidewalk.<\/p>\n
“I know a lot of people that bring their cars to the train, so this will take them away from being able to do that,” explained Mathew Carroll.<\/p>\n
“Just say it,” doubled down Lindsay, “you don’t want people who drive cars to live in New York City anymore.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Department of Transportation plans to begin installation of 48 new Citi Bike docks in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-213905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}