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# Parking Meters Becoming Bike Racks On 5th Ave
- URL: https://bklyner.com/parking-meters-becoming-bike-racks-on-5th-ave-southslope/
- Published: 2013-09-25T17:40:47.000Z
- Updated: 2013-09-25T17:40:47.000Z
- Author: Christine Bush
- Tags: bike racks, department of transformation, parking meters, #API-Imported

![chopped parking meter on 5th ave](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/photo-10-600x450.jpg)

We spotted several of the area’s old parking meters with their heads chopped off around 5th Avenue and 15th Street on Wednesday, and the [DOT](http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml?ref=bklyner.com) confirms that this is a continuation of the citywide project to [convert 12,000 meters to bike racks](http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/01/09/nyc-dot-prepares-for-12000-parking-meter-to-bike-rack-conversions/?ref=bklyner.com).

7th Avenue saw their [meters transformed](/blog/transportation/old-parking-meters-becoming-bike-racks-on-7th-avenue) in August of this year.

![DOT Sign Meter Bike Racks](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/photo-11-600x450.jpg)

In order to facilitate these transformations, the DOT asks that, beginning today, September 25, residents do not attach their bikes to the old parking meters.

![bikes chained to meters](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/photo-9-600x450.jpg)

There were still a handful of bikes chained to tagged meters this afternoon, so if your wheels are there, make sure to move them ASAP.