NYC Parking Meters To Be Reborn as Bike Racks

It must be the retirement fantasy of every parking meter: to live out one’s days away from the quarter-pumping frenzy without ending up in the scrap heap. Beginning this spring, some New York City parking meters will live the dream. The city’s latest green transportation plan calls for lopping off the heads of 225 parking meters and transforming them into bike racks. “It’s the ultimate recycling to transform the old meters into bike parking racks,” city Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan told