It would be useful for cities with colder and snowy seasons like Toronto, where between summer and winter bicycle traffic varies greatly.
A “bike platform” that temporarily swaps one car parking space for ten bicycles
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#22> A light, quick, cheap solution so good, it should be copied the world over. It is. This can be seen all over... SF, LA, DC, Austin, Ann Arbor ... I have seen this everywhere (in the US)
Temporary/incremental bike racks are common? I've never seen this before in any US city. Pretty cool idea.
And makes a lot of sense when demand is seasonal (e.g.: summer surges of bicyclists)
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Santa Monica is doing something similar for escooters, and calling them "drop zones"[0]. [0]: https://la.streetsblog.org/2018/11/08/santa-monica-installs-...
It's regulation, but it's kind of forcing infrastructure and government to deal with a problem when maybe the model should be that these companies are forced to rent small areas of corners, parking lots, etc. for corrals and charging, kinda like the Fotomat drive-thru camera film development, or snow cone stands. Seeing dead scooters laying in the streets here for days sucks, and while remarking the street makes sens…
I would argue that the city should solve for this, because bikes and other small personal transport devices SHOULD have more designated secure parking. One person could park their car, or 15 people could park their scooters and bikes. In cities with good public transit, we shouldn't be allocating so much public space to people parking private vehicles.
Re: A “bike platform” that temporarily swaps one car parking space for ten bicycles
#24> A light, quick, cheap solution so good, it should be copied the world over. It is. This can be seen all over... SF, LA, DC, Austin, Ann Arbor ... I have seen this everywhere (in the US)
The innovation is that these are temporary, and are an experiment. If the temporary one attracts significant usage, it's replaced with a permanent one. If not, it reverts to car usage.
Yup.
These are basically reusable PoCs.
You move it somewhere. See if there is demand. And if there is, you look at more permanent solutions.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Santa Monica is doing something similar for escooters, and calling them "drop zones"[0]. [0]: https://la.streetsblog.org/2018/11/08/santa-monica-installs-...
It's regulation, but it's kind of forcing infrastructure and government to deal with a problem when maybe the model should be that these companies are forced to rent small areas of corners, parking lots, etc. for corrals and charging, kinda like the Fotomat drive-thru camera film development, or snow cone stands. Seeing dead scooters laying in the streets here for days sucks, and while remarking the street makes sens…
We don't require the same of cars. Why should we burden other modes of transportation?
It's worth noting that overnight street parking was illegal in New York until 1950: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/17/realestate/streetscapes-c...
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hopefully not so light that a thief can load up the whole thing and steal all the bikes.
Ten years or so ago I recall a story about some guys in Eugene unbolting an entire rack full of bikes from the asphalt and loading it into a truck. Can't find the story now.
The bigger, the easier to get away with it from a social perspective--they could look more like people on official construction business.
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#27Yeah... but in the end, you still have to ride a bike.
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#28> A light, quick, cheap solution so good, it should be copied the world over. It is. This can be seen all over... SF, LA, DC, Austin, Ann Arbor ... I have seen this everywhere (in the US)
Where in Ann Arbor? I live in it and have never seen a structure like this.
In front of the gay bar in Kerrytown. It's not a platform, but it's the same concept. There is a steel barrier/structure placed there to block cars from parking and the structure also serves as a bike rack.
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#29> A light, quick, cheap solution so good, it should be copied the world over. It is. This can be seen all over... SF, LA, DC, Austin, Ann Arbor ... I have seen this everywhere (in the US)
Where in DC? I've never seen it.
Can't remember where, but I've seen it. Chances are it was somewhere near Adams Morgan or Georgetown.
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#30the real question is what colour it should be