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The day has come for the meters at my office to say goodbye and go to meter heaven (West side of 1800 block of Clark). I saw the green baggies they put over the meters yesterday. What am I gonna do????? There is no room in my office for my bike. We keep talking about getting a rack, have requested it time and time again and I havent heard a thing. I will have someone talk to the alderman again. Was thinking of maybe doing a fundraiser in the neighborhood to just buy/install a private rack but I wish it wouldn't have to come to that.
Julie,
I'd be interested to hear exactly how and when the rack was requested.
Thanks!
Julie Hochstadter said:The day has come for the meters at my office to say goodbye and go to meter heaven (West side of 1800 block of Clark). I saw the green baggies they put over the meters yesterday. What am I gonna do????? There is no room in my office for my bike. We keep talking about getting a rack, have requested it time and time again and I havent heard a thing. I will have someone talk to the alderman again. Was thinking of maybe doing a fundraiser in the neighborhood to just buy/install a private rack but I wish it wouldn't have to come to that.
How important is this to you really…to be able to lock your bike to a parking meter!? I use a mini NYC lock and it won’t go around most parking meter poles also I don’t have to lock my bike right in front of where I’m at…a few buildings away it’s that far to walk and in reality you can lock your bike up to almost anything and not worry about it missing when you come back if you have a good lock…more parking meters to me seems like more cars in the city and on the city streets – we have enough already!!! How about more bike lanes…maybe one on Ashland Ave. or Western…this to me seems like a much better argument to make or complain about. Parking meters…not!
How important is this to you really…to be able to lock your bike to a parking meter!? I use a mini NYC lock and it won’t go around most parking meter poles also I don’t have to lock my bike right in front of where I’m at…a few buildings away it’s that far to walk and in reality you can lock your bike up to almost anything and not worry about it missing when you come back if you have a good lock…more parking meters to me seems like more cars in the city and on the city streets – we have enough already!!! How about more bike lanes…maybe one on Ashland Ave. or Western…this to me seems like a much better argument to make or complain about. Parking meters…not!
Gonna go ahead and assume you haven't read all eight pages of this thread... A) it's important to have parking meters because it's important for people to pay for the space they're taking up on the street. "How about more bike lanes" (instead of meters) is a false dichotomy. The needs for bike parking and bike lanes are not in competition with one another. B) it's important to be able to lock our bikes to something... right now parking meters are the only secure options in many areas. Your statement "in reality you can lock your bike up to almost anything and not worry about it missing when you come back if you have a good lock" is quite wrong. A good lock won't do you much good if whatever you're locking to is not secure. The bike parking program is backed up and can't replace all the parking meters with real bike racks quickly enough to meet demand.
ERCHLVRSN said:How important is this to you really…to be able to lock your bike to a parking meter!? I use a mini NYC lock and it won’t go around most parking meter poles also I don’t have to lock my bike right in front of where I’m at…a few buildings away it’s that far to walk and in reality you can lock your bike up to almost anything and not worry about it missing when you come back if you have a good lock…more parking meters to me seems like more cars in the city and on the city streets – we have enough already!!! How about more bike lanes…maybe one on Ashland Ave. or Western…this to me seems like a much better argument to make or complain about. Parking meters…not!
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