Unlike Old Amsterdam, New Amsterdam lacks charming canals into which rusty bicycles can be tossed out of sight, so our bike-carcasses are left to rot on the street. If you call 311, the Department of Sanitation will pick up the bike within a week or so to recycle it, but in the last 18 months only 40 bikes have been removed. To illustrate that this is just a drop in the graveyard, WNYC's Transportation Nation has created a map of all the city's busted bikes hogging up prime bike-parking real estate based on submissions.
They've also got a sweet photo gallery of, uh, busted bike porn, if you're into that stuff (we won't judge). Email your photos of dead bikes to [email protected] and include the location. Hopefully the city will realize that 40 bikes in 18 months just ain't cutting it.
