Lots to celebrate for Jersey City cyclists, 7?10 tonight at Barcade:

--Bike JC's fourth anniversary
--A bike share system coming this year
--Over 50 miles of bike lanes and sharrows also due early this year
--Recent opening of the new connector bike/walkway to southwest Hoboken
--Installation of the first bike racks under a city program to place them in retail districts and around the city (the first two are outside Barcade!)

We'll be raising money to help fund more racks tonight. Come down, have a beer, and help us kick off what should be a great year of progress for biking in Jersey City!

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Barcade is at 163 Newark Ave. at Barrow St. Downtown.

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Yep, and we're trying to keep them cheap. They help the businesses that get them out front, but they also help boost human-powered transport all over the city, and that improves safety?especially for pedestrians, as well as cyclists!

Go you Spurs!

That's cheap. I'd donate one if I rode a bike. Of course it'd have to have a dedication on it to me. MEEEE!

I walk everywhere.

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A small inverted-U rack like the two outside Barcade is available for a $250 donation to the rack fund, while a larger one with a wavy zig-zag design is $350. City engineers review all requests and, if approved, city workers do the installation work.

What does a bike rack cost?

Bike bump!

Beer! Barcade! Bike lane benefit!

Come celebrate with us! Bike JC will host a holiday and anniversary party and fundraiser at Barcade in Downtown Jersey City, this Thursday, 7-10 p.m.

Join us to celebrate our fourth anniversary, and also the installation of the very first racks funded by Jersey City's Bike Rack Fund, which was a Bike JC initiative. (They're the two shiny new ones just outside the bar!)

We'll also be raising money for the rack fund. There will be a raffle featuring donated bike swag from Grove Street Bicycles and Jersey Cycles, as well as some other nice items, and we'll receive a portion of drink proceeds thanks to Barcade!

All are welcome; admission is free. Come out, bring friends, have a craft beer, and talk bikes with us!

Barcade, at the corner of Newark Avenue and Barrow Street, offers an extensive and ever-changing selection of American craft beers along with sandwiches, snacks and other suitable accompaniments, surrounded by a small army of genuine arcade video games.

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