Need More Bicycle Parking?
November 6th, 2009 | by Clay Gump | Published in Bicycles | 2 Comments
As pointed out in a previous post development close to campus could use more bicycle parking and less vehicle parking. I also like the bike “escalator” for getting in and out of the subway. That is a much better solution than having to use the elevators on Metro.
Maybe Japan has the ultimate solution!
It’s not often something stops you in your bike tracks. But a spectacular “bike tree” invention from Japan bowled me over when I was in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago.
Fed up with bicycles locked to railings, piled on top of each other, blocking doorways and roads, a local council in the city installed the mechanical masterpiece. It’s basically an automatic storage system for cycles and operates with computer tagging of bikes and either storage in a building or a basement structure.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:54 am (#)
I’d love to see the unused area immediately behind McKeldin Library (the northside) developed into some sort of bike “garden” (the spot can be seen here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.985961,-76.945862&z=19&t=h&hl=en). A central location on the mall, it would be the perfect place to have mass bike parking, and incorporating plantings around the area would spruce up, I think, an area that surprisingly dull and underused. Given that the North Campus residences surround the area, I can think of no better way to encourage cycling on campus than by providing the convenience of adequate bike parking near one’s dorm.
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July 22nd, 2010 at 10:09 am (#)
Addendum: By North Campus residences, I meant the North Hill residences.
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