As bike infrastructure has expanded, city officials have faced a persistent push back from an insular religious community in Brooklyn's South Williamsburg neighborhood.

Local leaders, many of whom identify with the Satmar Hasidic Jewish movement, successfully fought to have a Bedford Avenue bike lane removed in 2009. Now, as the city prepares to roll out its new bike-share program next month, the map of locations bypasses South Williamsburg completely -- an exclusion planners see as sensitive deference to the community.

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