Brooklyn by Bike

Celebrate Brooklyn, the summer concert series in Prospect Park is adding a bike valet to their slew of facilities this summer! It’s great to see more and more bike friendly initiatives taking place here in the city. In my head I see bikes taking over the streets of NYC. It’s not totally crazy because I’ve been commuting to work with packs of cyclists, which is fantastic.

The ‘Celebrate Brooklyn Bike Zone‘ will be the largest bike parking initiative at a cultural (non-bike) event in NYC. Bike to the Bandshell and safely park your bicycle at the ‘Celebrate Brooklyn Bike Zone’ located at 11th Street and Prospect Park West. We are partnering with Transportation Alternatives to provide Bike Valet and Self Park & Lock areas to accommodate approximately 400 bikes. [via @Ds3 via Brooklyn Vegan]

In other Park Slope centric news, we might be seeing a new bike lane on Prospect Park West. Considering it often used as a drag racing strip, cyclists have been concerned with the safety of the lane but opponents aren’t too happy with the request for a segregated bike lane.

The 16-4 vote decided that the painted buffer zone the DOT would use to separate the bike lane is insufficient. Speaking to the Brooklyn Paper, board member and bike lane opponent James Bernard said, “This is a crazy idea that doesn’t make any sense. People want to do something good for bikes, but you are robbing Peter to pay Paul — and Peter in this case is safety of the children.” [via Gothamist]

We are feeling a little bummed about staying in Brooklyn for the big discobama…I mean inauguration. CNN is calling it “The Moment” and wants you to send pictures of Obama raising his hand to themoment@cnn.com WTF!? Bombard those fools with dirty photos would you?

Anyways, there is good news for the cyclists out there! The Washington Area Bicyclist Association will perform a valet service with fully uniformed valets.

As an added bonus, commemorative spoke cards and valet claim check tickets will be available free of charge to everyone who uses the bike valet. While supplies last. [via WABA]

That alone makes us regret not biking into town.

The Washcycle suggest going early or biking around as the volunteers are preparing to check 1000 bikes for 1.5 to 3 million people and they “might” be overrun. Click the map below to check out the valet sites and bike paths. [via Washcycle]

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