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# Parking Meters to Become Bike Racks
- URL: https://bklyner.com/parking-meters-to-become-bike-racks-ditmas-park/
- Published: 2013-03-19T15:44:20.000Z
- Updated: 2014-09-30T16:21:33.000Z
- Author: Mary Bakija
- Tags: bike racks, parking meters, #API-Imported

![Parking Meters: Future Bike Racks?](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/dpc_parkingmeters_bikeracks-533x399.jpg)

Back in January, the Department of Transportation announced it was planning on [turning 12,000 defunct parking meter poles into bike racks](http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/01/09/nyc-dot-prepares-for-12000-parking-meter-to-bike-rack-conversions/?ref=bklyner.com). At last week’s CB14 meeting, where the DOT was on hand to discuss [adding bike lanes to our area](/blog/transportation/how-to-plan-for-bike-lanes-in-community-district-14), Hayes Lord, director of the Bicycle Program at the DOT, confirmed that this would, at some point, be happening in Ditmas Park.

Since [muni-meters have been installed](/blog/transportation/muni-meters-making-their-way-to-more-parts-of-the-neighborhood) just about everywhere in the neighborhood, the old metal meters are just sitting there, so this seems like a novel idea — they cut off the meter on the top and add a ring to the post, to which people can lock up their bikes. But there are quite a number of these defunct meters, many standing next to existing bike racks — would converting them all be overkill, or is there (or could there be) that much demand?