Here's another challenge to placing Citi Bike stations in parks

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Plaintiffs are reasserting that the Bike Share Program and Kiosks are specifically designed to facilitate transportation, not recreation and is therefore not a legitimate park use."The short rental period, fee structure, and functional, uncomfortable build of the Program’s bikes all demonstrate that its design goal is transportation, not recreation," court papers state.

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This case, involving SoHo’s Petrosino Square (Cleveland Pl & Spring St.), is another challenge to placement of  Citi Bike stations in park space.  

Off-street stations are critical to the bike-sharing system’s wintertime operations because they’re safely out of reach of the plows. On-street stations can get entombed in ice for days and weeks after a big snow.
And as we write this, we realize we’re making the plaintiff’s case -- that Citi Bike is about transportation first, recreation second.