On the corner of Wilder and Metcalf streets, overwhelmed by tall weeds and decaying relevance, a Biki bike station stands as a shabby monument to a bygone dream.
If public ride-share bikes were important to the community, this place would show it.
There in densely populated, parking-challenged Makiki, where grandpas are known to take their civic pride and personal weed-whacking skills to overgrown eyesore public spaces, a Biki bike station should be a valuable resource, not another government project no one cares enough about to fix. Hundreds of Punahou parents drive by the station every day and you don’t see those movers and shakers complaining to the city…