I think the sanitation department needs to figure out a way to recycle these abandoned bikes. How about photographing and tagging obviously bent-up and abandoned bikes, saying that they will be removed in two weeks if not either repaired or moved. This could be done on a systematic block by block campaign, putting warning signs up informing residents what will happen. As it stands many of the bike racks that the city has installed over the past few years are uselessly clogged up with abandoned bikes.

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