1. Electric scooter rentals are now the hottest thing! Someone look into it and bring it to Lakewood!!! Companies similar such as Bird, Skip, Lime .. can be amazing and help with trafffic

2. NO

3. Excellent Idea

4. Electric scooter rentals are much better. In LA we have 2 companies that do it. Bird and Lime. Very popular. Would be fantastic in Lakewood. (Weather permitting)

5. How can we have bike rentals. When there are no sidewalks. It’s very Dangerous

6. We should introduce bikes to Lakewood and then it will take up more space that we don’t have to park these bikes at? Look what’s going on in the city it’s taking up valuable parking space when there isn’t any. People don’t even ride their bikes anywhere and then we should have these ?it makes no sense

   • The hope is that with these bikes, there will be less traffic, and we will need less parking spaces. I don’t know if it will work, but if it will work, then your concern will be a non-issue.

7. Excellent Idea.

8. We first need bike lanes

9. Bad idea noone will use them cause “it doesn’t pas”

10. Yes. Absolutely. I’m sitting on this idea for years. To bring the city bike concept to lakewood. Sheer genious. It will also break the being acceptable environment that controls so much of how the town operates. Besides, for the traffic elimination, the exercise it promotes and happy easygoing feel it will cause, a great win for lakewood.
    I’m confident it will happen since all ideas that I have are ultimately thought of by someone else and implemented.
    I also have a hunch that this is a troll from someone in the that planning role and is gauging the response and warming the public to the idea.
    Just do it. It’s genious, revolutionary, and right.
    Thank you, whoever you are.

    • ironically the word is spelled “genius”

11. We should only use bikes on a sidewalk because if you bike on the
    street, it could be very dangerous!

    • Bikes belong in the street not on the sidewalk where they can hid pedestrians. Once in the street the bikes must obey the same traffic traffic rules as cars.

      • And that is jus what the dangerous congested streets need, bikes

12. They should build a 2 way bridge across the lake, that will go directly to/ near private way near BMG.

    And to all the boaters.
    They should allow for them to go underneath!!

13. 1-We don’t have bike lane in Lakewood left anymore.
    2- Over 100,000 resident , would you let your kid on the bike in the street ?
    3- Bicycle don’t belong on the sidewalk

14. There is a new Company, Revel, that rents electric mopeds in Brooklyn. They have registration and plates and u can ride them on the street. That would he a gr8 idea here. Of course, bikes is also a good idea.

15. Great now us ladies will be able to do exercise in a kosher way

16. No.. there are no sidewalks in some places, there is already enough near fatalities, we don’t need any more. What about HELMETS??? Also, the people will be rushing back to return them before they have to pay more money. In NYC it’s scary enough. For our children’s health and our sanity.. PLEASE NO

17. One problem none of you genius’s figured out – no smart phone= No App=No electric scooters or Citi Bikes

    Its all run through a mobile apps

    Unless we would have frubikes

18. This is a bad idea for a number of reasons. I get the idea of trying to reduce traffic, but that will never happen.

    1) The people that drive are not going to stop driving because bikes are available now

    2) There will be controversy about women riding the bikes and that will start a whole tumult

    3) It’s simply not safe. There are enough road accidents as it is. Don’t make the problem bigger.

19. If you want to ride a POWERED BIKE then you WILL have to get a motorcycle license in NJ. Note = ALL bikes are to be ridden on the street, road, etc. and obey all motor laws. Bike are NOT allowed to be ridden on sidewalks.

20. It is a great idea but we first need to introduce bike lanes in this town.

    • We had bike lanes in Lakewood years ago, but we had to get rid of them because we needed the road space for the cars. Now we have no room to safely put them back. None of the roads are wide enough to support both cars and bikes. Oh well….maybe next time.

21. Why can’t people just buy their own bikes to go to Yeshiva? Why rent one?

22. Dangerous!!and I don’t like to drive next to bikes

23. It’s such a shame Lkwd gave up their bike lanes. I live in a town slightly larger with a smaller footprint than Lkwd. 30% of those who live and work in town use bicycles as transportation. About 15% of those that work in two neighboring towns (each about 8 miles away) us bicycles as their commuter vehicles. We do have real winters and lots of wet weather. At last count I think we had over 30 miles of bike lanes in town. Bicycles cannot be ridden on sidewalks except when noted for safety during construction. It’s a far different lifestyle than Lkwd. but you will see lots of fit older and younger people on bicycles year round.

24. excellent idea.If you feel feel its dangerous cause there are no sidewalks, so dont use it. not everything thats scary and dangerous for you is dangerous for others.

25. Hi gr8 idea, let me just point out that a lot of ppl drop off their kids to babysitters near yeshiva. How will that play out?

26. Yes,great idea! Once ppl use bike,the township will have to install bike lanes!
    Less traffic.
    No more hitchhiking problems for non drivers.
    More exercise.
    Less polution.
    It’s been done all over Europe in towns way bigger than Lakewood,N.J!
    Right now it’s dangerous because you don’t expect riders on the road, if it becomes common and there are bike lanes set up it won’t be!

27. Yes to bikes and yes to right away. Thank you.

28. I was in Lakewood during the summer. I rode my e bike all over town. I had a blast and never had to worry about traffic. The biggest problem is some of the drivers. They don’t belong on the road.
    An e bike can get you from prospect vines to Yeshiva in less then 10 minutes . You get both exercise and save time . Never a problem finding a parking spot. My advice is go for it.

29. Great idea but only for men?

30. Rentals? Let everyone buy a bike, park it as the please and enjoy the nature, exercise and traffic avoidance. Making it an acceptable norm would be something to strive for.

31. Lakewood does not have the money to invest in such an endeavor. All cities that introduced bike rentals actually lost money on it( Big cities can afford to lose such money sometimes, Lakewood obviously cannot). Also, with more and more road shoulders being turned into regular car lanes to enable additional left turning lanes, the streets are just becoming less and less biker friendly.

32. How about we create a bus system? Maybe that will help traffic? Come on everyone you know bikes won’t help. Just build smarter! Maybe someone can nominate “Thought” to the Planning Board.
    Just the thought of it – I can already imagine all the traffic studies that will be done now will show zero impact because they will estimate everyone will be riding bikes!

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