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Mayor Coleman is seeking suggestions from urban enthusiasts here at Columbus Underground on what neighborhoods and specific areas are in need of additional bicycle parking solutions. These suggestions will help to shape the development of the Bicentennial Bike Plan. Advice is needed specifically for areas in and around Downtown, including the Short North, the University District, Brewery District, Near East Side, and Franklinton.
Please make your suggestions as specific as possible, and if you see a suggestion that someone else has made that you also like, be sure to post that you’d also like to see it as well. The ideas that get the most support will be most heavily considered for installation.
Kroger at 7th and High!
Is this a rhetorical question?
Yes, I second Columbusite’s comment about the light blue rack in the pic. Those fence type racks suck and are useless. The best racks are the upside-down U-shaped ones that are all over OSU.
No fence racks, bike bollards, artsy racks, or other poorly designed racks.
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Efficient for the users of said bike racks or the city?
Efficient for people posting on CU!
Should we also ask businesses if they want metered parking in front of their buildings? :roll:
City owns the sidewalks, city decides what goes on the sidewalks.
Any where there are parking meters=desirable location.
I am personally requesting racks for 2929 N. High St., 95 E. 1st Ave, 24 & 26 E. Blake Ave, 868 Park St.
The folks in City Hall should walk around town for the next 3 months and record the address of where ever they see a bike locked to a fence, trashcan, parking meter, sign post, lamp post, tree, gutter/downspout, bench, guy wire, telephone pole, pillister, column, stair rail, bus stop, fire hydrant, or another bike. It would be better than sitting at thier desks all day desiring to know what’s with it.
Our leaders at city hall need some street cred, and to me they have very little. Coleman needs more street cred.
That’s one of the best ideas I’ve heard in a long time.
That’s one of the best ideas I’ve heard in a long time.
Amen!
Liz- Downtown Columbus Corp had a contest for bike rack designs for Gay street and they didn’t award it to anyone. Hell they said they were awarding the public art component but I never actually saw an announcement of that either.
I did a really craptacular job of drawing up my idea and submitting it but in my mind it actually looks a heck of a lot better than it does on paper. That being said the contest asked for artistic ideas beyond the standard U rack but IMO the U rack is pretty much the end all be all of good design for locking up your bike. Here’s what I entered:
http://andrew-miller.com/2008/06/10/bike-rack-design/
The open line show today about bikes was good and you can listen to the mp3 at:
http://www.wosu.org/radio/radio-open-line/
Oh, and finally, yeah, I totally love that picture of the bikes in front of Tip Top Liz – it makes me squeal a bit…
Walker, you’ll be happy to know that CU placed number one on Google for the following search query “hitching post bike rack columbus ohio“.
On another note, if we were in Colonial Williamsburg, VA those hitching post bike racks would be Fn’ Sweet!
I’ll ask the LT or a Trooper next time I get a chance what the policy is on the Statehouse grounds regarding bikes. I find it hard to believe that they cut locks when mine is left untouched, as well as several others I have seen. The racks blend nicely with the building’s history. The big German shepherd and armed Highway officer makes a nice theft deterrent.
Somewhere near Rhodes. I know cars need to get back there, but Pearl/Lynn alley behind Rhodes would be great for a bike rack! (we could kick out those motorcycles that are taking up the space that used to be a bike rack) :wink:
I am definitely agreeing with most of these suggestions.
U SHAPED! EVERYTHING ELSE IS CRAP!
Beyond that –
YES – EVERY BLOCK BOTH SIDES Downtown, ShortNorth, and University District.
Also – all three Lessner joints are in serious need of racks. ESPECIALLY Surly.
Rhodes does or recently did have a bike rack, albeit it is one of those terrible fence-style one that make no sense. There is a good U-Shaped one at Pearl and Gay.
There’s a rack between the Riffe and the Huntington that has space for FOUR bikes. FOUR! There have to be at least 2,000 people who work in those two buildings. All four spots were taken up this morning.
A sign of the maturing urban environment : Last night I discovered there are trees in the SN that are too big for me to use my U-bolt.
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this spot needs more bike racks.
haha I love that one. It’s the bike rack that wears a trench coat and dark glasses and pops out from behind corners to con you into giving him your bike.
haha I love that one. It’s the bike rack that wears a trench coat and dark glasses and pops out from behind corners to con you into giving him your bike.t
There is also a rack in the Riffe Garage right off of the entrance on Wall Street. It usually has plenty of spaces.
Follow Chicago’s lead:
Millenium Park Bicycle Station with showers, indoor bike storage, lockers, bike repair and rentals- http://www.chicagobikestation.com/
Request for bicycle rack- http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalContentItemAction.do?BV_SessionID=@@@@1315909358.1213995136@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccfadeegmijkfdcefecelldffhdfhk.0&contentOID=10157&contenTypeName=COC_EDITORIAL&topChannelName=Residents&blockName=Promo+Item&channelId=-536879023&programId=536879084
List of indoor bicycle parking and stations-
http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalContentItemAction.do?BV_SessionID=@@@@1315909358.1213995136@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccfadeegmijkfdcefecelldffhdfhk.0&contentOID=536892189&contenTypeName=COC_EDITORIAL&topChannelName=Residents&blockName=Promo+Item&channelId=-536879023&programId=536879084
Skip to about minute 21:52.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/23334/design-e2-the-green-machine#x-0,vepisode,1
The Lazarus building has a garage monitored by security that holds tons of bikes. There are also bike racks along front street.
But…we usually just take ours in.