Wednesday, September 16, 2009

BICYCLE SHARING RACKS SHOULD BE INSTALLED AT AREA TRAIN STATIONS TO PROMOTE TOURISM, CYCLING, HELP MERCHANTS

GREENBURGH SUPERVISOR PROPOSES BIKE SHARING PROGRAM TO HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITIES
WILL PROMOTE TOURISM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT THE TRAFFIC...
RENT A BICYCLE RACKS SHOULD BE INSTALLED AT TRAIN STATIONS ALONG HUDSON RIVER...

Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner is suggesting to the Greenburgh river villages (Hastings, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, Tarrytown) and to officials in the other Hudson River communities (Yonkers, Ossining, Sleepy Hollow, Croton, Briarcliff Manor, Cortlandt, Buchanan and Peekskill ) that they consider placing bicycle sharing racks near the Hudson River or at train stations in their communities.
Feiner believes that bike sharing can help promote tourism to our river communities. Visitors to our villages and communities could take the train to Westchester and then rent an inexpensive bicycle. If a number of the river villages/cities have bike sharing racks, cyclists could visit one, two or many different communities. They can get on a bicycle at one location and drop off the bicycle at another train station. This will help our downtown merchants and will also encourage more tourism, without the traffic. Bike sharing could also be convenient for Westchester residents who may not have their own bicycle or may not want to take their bike from their home to the different river communities.
Bike sharing programs exist all over the nation and world. Feiner is suggesting that instead of making the bikes free that cyclists be charged a fee to use the bicycle for a few hours or for the day. The time has come for Westchester communities to implement this innovative concept.
Feiner is a bicyclist and has cycled from Hartsdale to Washington DC in the past to promote federal initiatives to encourage safe cycling.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Feiner in the third person - yikes! Wasn't there a Seinfeld episode about this?

hal samis said...

I don't remember the episode but is it safe to say for example, "We are Henry the VIII"?

What I do know of bike racks and the Supervisor (don't I seem to know something about everything) is that when I suggested to this pillar of bike riding sponsorship that the bike rack at the Hartsdale Train station be moved 20steps away so that bikes could be tethered to BOTH sides of the rack and the bikes at the new location would be even more protected from elements by the overhead trees and parts of the station platform and the stairway leading to the walkway over the tracks...he forwarded this to his go-to contact at Parks, Mike Nessler, and then nothing was done. And nothing was done two months later when I repeated the suggestion. However when two weeks ago I took matters into my own hands and called Gerry Byrne, head of Parks, he said sure, no problem and the 10minute job was done a few days later.
(turns out that I do know a little about everything).

On the other hand, the Town Supervisor is a source of ideas for what other governments should be doing while doing little himself to solve the problems of his employer, the Town of Greenburgh.

Anonymous was close by citing Seinfeld but the yikes or yadda yadda is best employed when you remember that Seinfeld, like Feiner, is a show about nothing.

Anonymous said...

Mr Feiner might also have reminded everyone that Greenburgh has a helmet law.
Riding a bike without a helmet is illegal in the Town of Greenburgh. Will the bicycle sharing racks include helmet sharing racks too?

ed krauss said...

Dr. Feiner, heal thyself. Whereare the bike racks at the world's most expensive library?

Anonymous said...

Hal, Hal, Hal,

And does that leave YOU as George or Kramer?

Anonymous said...

I think he is looking for another spot on that show........