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So why is Sadik-Khan being so stubborn? Rather than move it into the street, she is wasting taxpayers' money to fight keeping art out of a public park?
What is wrong with this person?
History has shown that the mayor will bulldoze over anything or anyone that stands in the way of his vision. His napoleonic aspirations to have a visual legacy is affecting his common sense. Allowing public park land for a corporate image makeover and rebranding opportunity should be a criminal offense!Citi bank has paid 2.3 billion dollars in fines for various fraudulent activities over the last 3 years, is this who we want in our face all over downtown?Please email Sadik -khan @ D.O.T , tell her to move the bike station out of Petrosino Park.Also where is the larger parks support in our effort , I'm sure Central park and Wash.sq and Union sq. not allow a bike parking lot to take over HALF their parkland!Keep parks free of Advertising and Corporate profitting.
The people behind the scheme to remove art from Petrosino Square are the leaders of Transportation Alternatives.
TA had PAID petitioners at the park for several days a couple of weeks ago, asking people to sign petitions to keep the citibank bike rentals there. I was one of the people who was asked, and refused. Their failure to collect significant signatures is the reason they stopped after a few days. Even cyclists want art there.
I used to be a TA member, but I quit. They have been taken over in recent years by a claque of extremists, some of whom have been hired by DOT and who now call the shots there: people like Wiley-Schwartz and Jon Orcutt.
"in the dead of night"? Sounds sinister, but weren't about half the stations installed during the overnight hours?
Three sources quoted from one viewpoint and none from the opposite side?
Not very objective reporting in this article.
There is an easy win-win here, so why the resistance by DOT and Sadik-Khan to move the Citibikes 50 FEET into the streetbed?
This is payback for the defeat of the Prince Street Pedestrian Mall Initiative.
You got that right!
And for the defeat of the pop-up cafes in SoHo, the defeat of their similar plans to put a Citibike in the memorial Fr. Fagan Park on Prince/Sixth Ave, for the defeat of the bike corrals recently on Lafayette, and the defeat of the so-called GreenWave for Prince Street. DOT is batting 0 for 5 in SoHo.
This is Sadik-Khan's and TransAlt's revenge for all these defeats.
This plan for Petrosino will likewise be defeated in the courts. In America, expressive art trumps transportation alternatives.
Sadik-Khan and TA will soon be wiping more egg off their face.