Bicycle Parking
One of the advantages to using a bicycle to get around is parking. It is generally easy to find a place to park. Many places have bike racks. But sometimes bike racks aren’t all that great.
Check this bike parking out:
The very nice thing is that it is roomy and in a covered garage. Now for the bad news. Notice how people have parked with the bikes running parallel to the racks instead of using the racks the way they were intended.
One bike takes the space of four bikes. But in this good designed but poorly placed rack there isn’t much choice. The rack is set so close to the wall that you can’t park your bike the way it is intended to be parked.
What is even more interesting is that on the day I took this picture I ran into this same situation at two different places on the same day.
The other annoyance is people parking scooters at these bike racks. I had a scooter and never used bicycle racks. Again they take up the same space as about three bicycles.
When there is no official bicycle parking it is generally pretty easy to find a place to lock your bike for short errands. Like next to a sign post.
I did this a few weeks ago and came back to find a letter on my bike telling me it wasn’t allowed. If they didn’t allow bikes to park there why don’t they put a sign up? Of course they had tons of car parking.
What I really find ironic is when I go to a bicycle shop and they don’t have a bicycle rack.
Tags: bicycle parking
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Ahhh, life is so hard
August 5th, 2009 at 10:35 am
We had a scooter parking in front of the bike stand for a long time at our apartment. Finally management did something about it. But it was like 6 months after they had been there. My management was so slow at enforcing things that I just locked up on the railing by my front door. The bike rack was so overcome with dusty bikes that never got used that it was impossible to find a place to put my bike. Finally like 2 weeks before I moved out they came around with notices saying we were not allowed to lock bikes up to the railing. Oh well…better late then never.
August 5th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
You would think that places would be very willing to provide spots of bikes. They take up so much less space than cars, less pollution, no noise. Hmm.
August 7th, 2009 at 3:01 am
Aww, did you sell your scooter?
August 10th, 2009 at 8:09 am
I sold the scooter when I moved. I kind of regret it but I didn’t know where I would keep it at the complex.