By: Steven Vance
This is a great design *intervention* I hope that Chicago will be able to implement soon.
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Chicago has also recently put in it's first bike corral: http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/cdot/provdrs/bike/news/2011/jul/chicago_s_first_on-streetbikecorralinstalled.html
View ArticleBy: Steven Vance
To Dennis: I covered it on my blog. http://gridchicago.com/2011/wicker-parking-chicago-debuts-its-first-on-street-bike-corral/What I meant by intervention was to install a bike corral in a location to...
View ArticleBy: Clarence Eckerson Jr.
If we could just get daylighting at every dangerous streetcorner in NYC we'd have much safer streets for drivers, pedestrians and lots of bike parking for all - especially with the loss of parking...
View ArticleBy: Todd Edelman
This is definitely a step in the right direction. Better for small shops and all street users... more here: http://greenideafactory.blogspot.com/2012/01/first-bike-corral-in-nyc.html
View ArticleBy: Richard Mlynarik
Nice, I agree. But I can readily envisage a hit-and-run driver taking out an entire row of people's treasured bicycles in one fell swoop. Perhaps even intentionally, if you read the sort of stuff...
View ArticleBy: Todd Edelman
YES, no soft hit bollards. Do people at DOT lock up their bikes with Twizzlers?
View ArticleBy: Odile Beniflah
This is a great idea and a great start... my husband got hit on his bike a few corners up on Carrol Street as a driver turned right abruptly without looking. Thankfully he only got a broken arm...
View ArticleBy: mikesonn
Example being the (now gone) bike corral at Zeitgeist. The end U-posts were always rammed into, pulled out of the cement, or had a truck parked with its bumper touching the post. So instead of...
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
The Street Racks Program is the perfect solution for daylighting on corners abutting schools where kids have trouble seeing over corner-parked cars AND there is never enough parking for bikes &...
View ArticleBy: Frederic
It is primarily the needs of cyclists that must decide where bicycle parking will be located. The problems of motorists should not influence the needs of cyclists. In our city the suburbs of Paris, we...
View ArticleBy: Alison Lee
Well done on a great project! I thought I would share with you a similar project we did in Melbourne, Australia a few years ago where we also evaluated the economic benefit of such projects in terms of...
View ArticleBy: Charles Miske
interesting solution to the perpetual problem of forcing cars to cross a solid white line to make a turn
View ArticleBy: Gaosta48
cities have so many dangerous blind corners. this is a great program for high use bike areas but taking it one step further for the blind corners by not letting ANY vehicles park in those areas up to...
View ArticleBy: EcoAdvocate
It's great that city officials are thinking of people on bikes more now, instead of devoting so much valuable space to automobiles. We're not in 1950 anymore. Millions of people choose not to drive....
View ArticleBy: EcoAdvocate
the bikes are not nearly as high as a car and so people can see over them. This is valuable space for bicycle storage. It would be a shame to leave it with no bicycle parking allowed.
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