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Rough ride for city’s bike-share program

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It’s been a rough ride for the first week of the city’ s bike-share program.

Sanitation workers and drivers have been inconvenienced — while one Citi Bike rider caused a fender-bender in Greenwich Village when she raced to beat a red light, cops said yesterday.

Meanwhile, a man ditched his rusted Schwinn in a dock reserved for Citi Bikes in Alphabet City.

And a Bronx guy was busted for allegedly snatching a Citi Bike from a Hell’s Kitchen station — the second swiped share bike this week.

Anthony Jones, 24, allegedly took advantage of the unlocked bike yesterday when its previous rider didn’t secure it.

“I thought you could just take the bike. I didn’t know you had to pay for the bike,” he told cops, prosecutors said.

He was arraigned for petit larceny and possession of stolen property.

Larry Celona and Elizabeth Hagen

An ‘offal’ situation

Citi Bike riders may want to clean off their seats before hopping on.

Sanitation workers have to toss bags of trash over several share stations, including this one in Greenwich Village (below).

The scene played out Tuesday, and again yesterday, in front of a West 13th Street co-op building where the rack previously had blocked EMTs from responding to a medical emergency.

The men pictured “were both annoyed. The guy who was loading the garbage said to me, ‘I hope you’re going to send that to the mayor,’ said Sean McGee. His co-op board is suing the city over the rack.

“The other guy was on the phone with — it sounded like a supervisor — complaining [about the] barrier the bikes were causing and how long it was taking.”

A line of cars was backed up at least half a block, McGee said.

Sanitation officials insist the bike-share stations haven’t made it harder for workers to do their jobs.

Dan MacLeod

This car’s a ‘space’ invader

A driver took a stand against the bike-share racks — parking in a car-sized gap that was left at one of the stations.

The white sedan at Hicks and Montague streets in Brooklyn Heights (below) had two traffic tickets on its windshield on Tuesday afternoon, according to observer Martin Galombik, 57.

It wasn’t clear if the driver was rebelling against the racks in former parking spots or was just in a rush. The car was not towed, records show.

Dan MacLeod

Wheels of misfortune

A woman on a Citi Bike was hit by a livery cab when she ran a red light in Greenwich Village, cops said.

The rider, 25, was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after the 12:45 accident at Houston and MacDougal streets.

The damaged 45-pound bike was spotted in the back of a police cruiser (above) yesterday afternoon on Greenwich Avenue shortly before 2:30 p.m.

The bike’s front wheel appeared to be bent.

Daniel Prendergast

‘Recycler’ just stuffs it

Now this is bike sharing.

A man ditched his rusted red Schwinn at a Citi Bike station in Alphabet City — leaving it unlocked all day in a dock meant for the new rides.

“I would guess they’re just pretending it’s locked up and hoping no one notices,” quipped one passer-by, John Hanson, 62.

“They’re taking advantage of the ‘maybe-it’s-locked’ system.”

A witness said the man parked the old bike between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. at the station on Avenue D between East Third and Fourth streets.

“He left the bike and just left,” recalled José Ortiz, 49, an East Village resident who said he didn’t recognize the bicycle’s owner.

At one point, the single-speed Schwinn Breeze — a model marketed to female riders — had a dingy corduroy jacket draped over the seat.

The front basket was stuffed with plastic bags and other items, including cardboard.

It was missing its left pedal.

“Whoever’s bike it is, they’d better come back soon or it’s gonna be gone!” said Tony Perez, a 53-year-old super at a building in the neighborhood

The Citi Bike system can distinguish between a bike-share cycle and a regular ride.

Aaron Feis