Fans that wish to use their bicycle as a mode of transportation to Citi Field can utilize any of the 10 bicycle parking racks located on the outside of the ballpark. The locations of the bicycle parking racks are as follows: First Base side of the Rotunda, Third Base side of the Rotunda, outside the Right Field Gate on 126th Street, outside the Left Field Gate.

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/nym/ballpark/guide.jsp#guide_b

I’m not a Mets fan, but it’s endearing that they are talking about bicycle transportation.

You’re also allowed to take your bike on MARTA. Nice to have given that the train does not go to the stadium.

Rob Bernstein President of Fan Relations

1 E 161st St, Bronx NY 10451

rbernstein@yankees.com

Lets get them to install some!

Actually, from the game I went to a few weeks ago at Fenway, LOTS of people bike to the game. I saw bikes attached to every parking meter, light post, etc.

Fenway only got sothered in bike racks within the past year. There are however, more than 25 posts holding two bikes each next to the stadium.

Very few people use them, as there are two subway stations, commuter rail and a bus terminus/depot within a block

So i will go to the new Yankee stadium sometime this year, but I’m really surprised to hear that they did not think to put in a bike rack. It seems absurd. I guess I’ll just park on the street to a pole or meter.

Another reason to love the mets and hate the yanks

They have so many racks around the stadium, that they’re never full. And they designed a special one with the “W” logo to surround the stadium.

Valet: http://www.flickr.com/photos/harry_hunt/2661959929/

Racks: http://www.flickr.com/photos/afagen/2374230723/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anorangecountygirl/2375541723/

They’re small in this one, but you can see how close they are to the stadium. You can literally lock up your bike within 50 yards of the entrance:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/harry_hunt/2662729094/in/set-72157606133997711/

Fenway, in Boston, is also well served by public transport, yet there are bike racks all over the place.

vnm, Yankee Stadium is in a ped-friendly neighborhood only if you are already in that neighborhood. Getting there from Manhattan or other parts of NYC requires more than walking.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetgordon/2437786948/in/photostream/

Picture was taken when there wasn’t a game happening, but you can see that it’s fenced in. Not sure if you have to pay, but even if you do…

Of course, the new parks could have been built anyway, without the need to cede a section of Macombs Dam Park, but that strikes me as unlikely.

They didn’t really “keep their present location,” since they saw fit to steal Macombs Dam Park from the people of the Bronx, as you alluded to in your map comment.

And that’s why the Yankees are cursed.

Besides that, I’m really ambivalent about this post.

On the one hand, it is ridiculous that the Yankees could spend $237 million in bond proceeds and a $70 million grant from Empire State Development Corporation to expand and renovate parking for cars but not spend a cent on bike parking.

On the other hand, the new Yankee Stadium is the best served MLB stadium in terms of mass transit: two and a half subway lines, three commuter rail lines, two ferries, and local, express, and plenty of charter buses. And it’s located in a very ped-friendly neighborhood, and there are many pedicab entrepreneurs around on game days.

So it would seem that nominally, the only mode that’s left out is bicycling. But then again, the nearest official bike parking is, as noted, on the Walton Avenue and 161st Street sides of the Bronx County Courthouse. That’s just 1,000 feet or two and half short blocks away from the stadium. The block between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Manhattan is 910 feet long. Really, is the Courthouse all that far away? The main problem is that these racks aren’t being promoted by the Yankees, because I rarely see anyone using them on game days.

Now, none of this should be construed to be a defense of the Yankees front office. They didn’t pay for the Metro-North station, and the elevated subway predates the first stadium by six years. And of course the nearby bike racks are not their doing. Their good decision was to keep their present location, which enables them to benefit from the richness of transit modes offered by this close-in urban neighborhood.

http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/sf-giants-valet-bike-parking-81-games-per-year/

Would the new Bikes in Buildings bill change that? Hopefully it won’t, but if the Barclays Center ever gets built, we should make sure that there is a big bike room since it is supposed to be transit-oriented development not car-oriented.

Mets rule even when they suck!