BAY RIDGE: Fixed gear: New bus racks let cyclists take bikes over Verrazano for first time

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailySoon, straphangers will be able to do what only car owners previously could — get a bicycle over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is piloting a program to let cyclists strap their bikes to the front of buses crossing the half-century-old span connecting Brooklyn and bucolic Staten Island starting Sept. 6.
Pedestrians and cyclists are not allowed to cross the bridge, meaning only drivers wit