Opinion: E-Bike Charging Stations in Former Newstands Won’t Get it Done

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By Baruch HerzfeldOct 12, 2022, 4:01 am202 pts
Mayor Adams’s recent announcement that the city would repurpose an abandoned newsstand into an e-bike charging station (with more on the way) is a plan that’s fraught with liability, uses public space poorly, helps very few people and, worse, doesn’t solve the problem of charging and storing dangerous…

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