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jamimaria said:If a business owner wanted to install a rack on the sidewalk outside of their business, what kind of permit do they need to get?
Maybe the artistic bike rack program could be like that Globe project a couple of years ago? Or the Pigs on Parade that Seattle did? Businesses could install artistic, functional bike racks and it would look good for the city as well.
I'd want to get together and talk about this! Definitely!
I like where this is going (although my cynical side thinks that might result in a bunch of racks for N. Michigan Ave. and screw the rest of the city). Also think about culturally aware bike racks tailored to different parts of town. My initial bikerack WTF moment was in Chinatown in December-- you could have a rack representing the different years (pig, rat, monkey etc.) or resembling big dragons . . .
in Wrigleyville or Bridgeport baseball references; mucho possibilities for Pilsen, Andersonville, boystown, etc . . .
am i over-optimistic?
If you are interested pushing these asks to a higher level by calling your alderman to ask them to explore specific creative funding sources for bike parking such as TIF’s, SSA’s or aldermanic infrastructure budgets
Wow, that's big of you. I was dreading the thought of having to ask someone to make that sacrifice.
Active Transportation Alliance said:If you are interested pushing these asks to a higher level by calling your alderman to ask them to explore specific creative funding sources for bike parking such as TIF’s, SSA’s or aldermanic infrastructure budgets
although, y'know, as an SSA commissioner (what I was talking about above), it's a little annoying to suddenly have to step in to be the savior -- when there are much cheaper and more obvious solutions, like leaving the dang poles in place. worse yet, they're being removed in such a way that anyone who, in the future, wants to put something there will have to dig out the remaining half of the meter pole first.
... I'm saying that I can get money (tax money! and not your tax money, mine!) to pay for racks if people want to put together a proposal.
H3, I believe from reading past posts, you are in Pilsen/Little Village. I looked-up both neighborhoods and I see that they show no action on bike racks since 2002. That's frustrating. Hopefully you can get stolen bikes on the site along with updated bike rack info. I wonder what the source of their bike rack info is; city records, end-users? They have a good site already and are on the verge of great (in my opinion) if they could add the stolen bikes and bike rack installations.
h3 said:Anne Alt said:Brian - It does seem that it's incomplete information, but it's something.
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