Bicycle Parking
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Meeting Tonight: Help Get More Bike Parking for SoHo
Bicycling advocates: On the agenda of this evening's Manhattan Community Board 2 transportation committee meeting is a plan to expand bike parking in SoHo. It would be very helpful to have a handful of people who live, work and visit SoHo on hand to make sure the committee knows how important parking is for bicyclists. Here are the details:
September 11, 2007
City Still Sending Mixed Signals on Bike Parking
A tipster sent us these photos of the City's new indoor bicycle parking facility at 280 Broadway. A couple of months ago cyclists who work for the City suddenly found themselves and their bikes turned away from their office buildings, leaving few options aside from locking up to street signs and unprotected outdoor racks. This new facility, free to any City employee with a valid ID, should help commuters who work near City Hall.
August 16, 2007
City Building Opens New Indoor Bike Parking Facility
The city bureaucracy got it a little bit backwards, cracking down on bike commuting employees before actually offering them a new place to park their wheels. But this e-mail sent this morning to Dept. of Health employees working at 280 Broadway seems like a step in the right direction.
August 7, 2007
City Backpedals, Says it is Now Making Space for Employee Bikes
Outdoor bike parking at 100 Gold Street
August 1, 2007
Bike Parking on Steroids
"Cyclists are so used to doing with scraps and they've been that way for so long that they are shocked when they get anything that satisfies their needs."
July 27, 2007
Welcome to Davis, California: A Bicycle Friendly Town
StreetFilms' Clarence Eckerson has been in Davis, California the last few days, filming one of the premier bicycling cities in the United States. Clarence has a preliminary report and some photos up on the web site with a StreetFilm yet to come. It's worth a quick look.
July 25, 2007
NYC’s Greenest Building Cracks Down on Bikes (Updated)
The Solaire building in Battery Park City bills itself as "America's first environmentally advanced residential tower." Here is a letter that building management just sent to all tenants:
July 18, 2007
How Do Bike Seizures Fit Into Bloomberg’s “Green Plan”
On Tuesday afternoon the Parks Dept. seized dozens of bikes parked at the Forest Hills train station
July 13, 2007