Written by Elsa Brown: This Spring, a number of parking meters in New York will no longer service car parking. Instead, they are being repurposed to create much-needed spots for bikes. There is currently just one bike rack space for every 30 cyclists in New York, and as biking’s popularity grows, the repurposing is an inventive, sustainable answer to the city’s changing needs.

Parking meters in the Upper East and West sides; Park Slope, Brooklyn; Riverdale, Bronx; and Ridgewood, Queens are to be replaced by communal “mini munis” on every block. Rather then rip out the old, individual meters, the city will remove and recycle the meter heads, and bend the remaining posts into circular racks. About 225 new bike spaces will be created. By investing in this plan the city will save the expense of tearing out the old meters and repairing the sidewalks, and will make many bikers happy.

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