Zipcar Wants Four Street Parking Spots in Bay Ridge/Dyker Heights – CB 10 Meeting 4/22
Last week, Community Board 10 held a committee meeting. Zipcar presented and they weren’t forthcoming with information.
First the Zipcar representative said: “We are actually new to CB10.” No, Zipcar has been in Bay Ridge for years – they are not new to our area.
When someone on CB 10 asked how many cars they had in the area, the Zipcar representative said they didn’t know. They could have easily checked on the app. Zipcar is in several locations in this community. There were cars available in our area over the busy holiday weekend. Enterprise is also a business in our community and they rents cars.
Zipcar want to take two parking spots near Owls Head Park at 120 – 68th Street. And they want two parking spots on 78th Street near 13th Avenue.
Thankfully, no one one Community Board 10 voted for Zipcar to take four parking spots. Private companies should not be taking public spaces.
Car sharing is not a new topic for Community Board 10. GetAround Car Sharing did a virtual presentation and then took spots from our community.
Back then, Senator Andrew Gounardes did not reveal his association with this company. But Queens residents found Gounardes and other Progressive politicians at a GetAround event right before they lost their parking spots in Queens. You can see that here:
https://getaround.com/blog/nyc-kickoff-event
You can hear Andrew Gounardes on video below:
We aren’t sure why Andrew Gouanardes was supporting GetAround, but he was too cowardly to tell our community. He definately does not understand businesses. It was announced at the Community Board 10 meeting that GetAround Car Share went out of business in North America.
This is the third time a carshare company is going after parking spots in Bay Ridge. In 2015, out community was covered by small white Cars2Go. That was Eric Adams when he was Brooklyn Borough President and the former head of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. Politicians shouldn’t be making bad choices for our community.
Every neighborhood is different. In Bay Ridge, many people drive because the R train did not receive the upgrades that other trains did. While Senator Gounardes sent out a flyers saying we were getting 8 minute service, no one in Bay Ridge has seen trains running every eight minutes. If trains were running correctly, we wouldn’t see Andrew Gounardes driving to his office in Downtown Brooklyn.
On Tuesday, April 22nd, the Zipcars are on the agenda for the CB 10 Meeting at 9941 Fort Hamilton Parkway at 7:00 pm.
It should be a lot clearer on their graphic (in the large paragraph below where it says car sharing).
Hugs,
marlene
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