Fixcity.org is amazing! It is a pro-active approach to all those frustrating moments when you find yourself standing on the street, muttering where the #$% is a bike rack! Now you can request racks for all those locations.

Here’s a recap of the day told to us by spot organizer Lacey Tauber and photo by Dan Latorre:

The Open Planning Project, the TA Brooklyn Committee, and local community advocacy group NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth) teamed up on Park(ing) Day to present a new website, FixCity.org Bike Racks. FixCity.org is an online platform communities can use to map desired bike rack locations. The pilot neighborhood is Greenpoint-Williamsburg so we set up our Park(ing) Space at Bedford and North 7th Street, right by the Bedford Avenue L train. Using a solar-powered laptop charger borrowed from our friends at Solar One, we premiered the site to passersby who used the interactive mapping tool to request new bike rack locations in the neighborhood. The goal of the site is to ultimately present 300 new, fully vetted bike rack orders to the Department of Transportation. If this pilot project is successful, the tool can be used citywide!

In addition to promoting FixCity, we also gave “bike therapy,” handing out TA’s Biking Rules guide, and promoting the upcoming Biking Rules PSA Festival!

Check out more photos from the hosts’ Flickr accounts:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neotint/3933431672/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51452761@N00/sets/72157622285501143/