Metro

12K more bike racks

It’s about to get a lot easier to find a parking spot in New York City — at least for cyclists.

The Department of Transportation is shelling out nearly $2 million to turn 12,000 old parking-meter poles into bike racks.

The retrofitted racks will be designed and manufactured by Long Island-based Louis Barbato Landscaping.

They will look similar to more than 200 existing bike racks, also made from old parking meters, that feature a hoop-shaped rack fixed to the middle of the pole. Those racks are already up in parts of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.

Although the $1.9 million contract might seem like a lot, officials say that using existing infrastructure saves money because they don’t have to rip out the poles.

And because they’re made out of sturdy old parking meters, they are more difficult to steal.

Meanwhile, the transportation committee of Manhattan’s Community Board 7 last night approved extending Columbus Avenue’s bike lanes north to 110th Street and south to 59th.

The full community board will vote on the extension on Feb. 5.