Gay Street Parking Lot Opens For Scooters
NBC4i.com wrote
Parking Lot Opens For Downtown Scooters
Tuesday, Jul 15, 2008
By Denise Yost
Trimming expenses is the name of the game for a growing number of Central Ohioans, and with gas hovering near $4 a gallon, riding bicycles, motorcycles and scooters is growing in popularity.
Getting to work on two wheels is becoming so popular that downtown workers are finding it difficult to find a place to park. But parking your scooter will get easier beginning Wednesday.
The city will open its first scooter parking lot on Gay Street between Third and High.
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July 16th, 2008 at 1:03 am
July 16th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Nifty!
I’m thinking of heading up to Brioso for lunch just to check out the new parking!
July 16th, 2008 at 8:12 am
thank you Mike and Mary Ellen.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:16 am
YAY!!
July 16th, 2008 at 9:55 am
YES!!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
:D
July 16th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Kick
Ass
:)
July 16th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Wow, I’ve never been excited about a parking lot before�but this actually makes me want to ride over there & patronize some Gay St. businesses!
July 16th, 2008 at 10:35 am
glad to see they’re listening.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:37 am
SU-WEET! no more City Center parking for me!! such a pain in the butt trying to get the sensor to recognize my bike…
July 16th, 2008 at 11:56 am
From the Mayor’s Office:
July 16th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
I don’t have a motorcycle or scooter but it’s really cool to see the city actually be ahead of the curve on something for once.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Looks cool. The locations outlined in that plan are great!
I hope they all can get done pretty quickly.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
This article made fark yesterday!!!!! The headline was:
Columbus, OH to offer scooter parking on Gay Street. No, that’s not a euphemism
July 16th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
+1
This actually makes me want a scooter that much more.
July 16th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
i was just over at Cafe Brioso for lunch to see the lot - no lot, but rather a couple of designated narrow parking spots. hey, it’s a start, right? but i have yet to check out the Mayor’s Parking Proposal, who must have stayed in the Gay St. area after the announcement (was seen enjoying their delicious food).
July 16th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Ha, we must have just passed each other. Jeff@urbaninfill and I had lunch at Cafe Briosso as well and saw Mayor Mike and a couple others. Here’s a photo of the parking spot which obviously isn’t quite worked out but you could definitely fit a few bikes there.
July 16th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
haha - yeah, it was pretty packed…i was the guy with the orange tie and mustache….if you even noticed that??
in addition to that picture there is another spot at the intersection of Gay and 3rd. same size/style.
July 16th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Funny that there’s no one parking in the designated area, but there’s two scooters on the sidewalk in the background. Ha!
Not to be greedy but that’s kind of a small space. One Harley parking parallel to the curb could fill that whole thing.
July 16th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I’m glad to see they’ll be doing something, pending ODOT approval of course, with the large concrete pad on the Cap in the Short North. I’ve always thought that was a waste of space. Be cool if they would put some benches, etc, along with the scooter parking to spruce it up a bit.
July 16th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
That would be nice. Sitting on a bench…in the sun…on a sea of concrete…looking at the scooters….
Can’t wait!
July 16th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I was just up at Tip Top at noon. They were painting the lines for the one at the corner of gay and 3rd. It’s a single car sized space there, but the guy who was running the painter said they are putting like 9 of them in!
Sure enough I noticed there is the one at gay and 3rd, which could handle maybe 5 scooters angle parked parallel. There is also a similar sized space on pearl alley just off gay, and the long, thin strip in front of Amici, which could handle a bunch of bikes if they park parallel facing east.
The guy from the city doing the painting also pointed to some places to the east and said they were putting some up there too.
I’ll have to look at this PDF file waker linked and see what else it shows!
July 16th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
wow um i work on gay st right by the Scooter Parking lot lol LOT? lol more like a space with somw paint on it that says cars cant park there . but that has been there since they re constructed the road i think there just posting signs and saying you can park there lol
July 16th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
which is a major improvement since they will no longer write you a ticket for parking there outside of an “official metered parking space”
which reminds me I still owe the city $20 for the last ticket…
July 16th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
that it is however lol the cop that patrols gay st ( he is the same one everyday) will ticket you for anyreson so you never know lol
there were a line of about 20 bikes up pearl ally one day and all of them had tickets :(
July 17th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Hooray!! This makes me incredibly happy.