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Cycle bays - waste of space?
On Friday, I had to pop up to town for a lunch appointment in Kensington
High Street. Of course, as the councils have been ripping out motorcycle bays, or making them smaller, and as the ones that are left are filled with scooterbois who don't know how to park, finding a space is rather tricky. What intrigued me was how down the centre of KHS, they'd installed cycle parking, with those gigantic great metal rails to chain bicycles to. OK, good idea. Except the rails are set about six feet apart, and each rail 'contains' precisely two bicycles, one on each side, because (I suppose) if someone's already chained their bicycle to the rail, chaining a second one on the same side is rather tricky. In short, what a ****ing waste of space. Bleeding acres of space that could be used for disabled parking, or bus bays, or (yes) a motorcycle bay or two would be nice, in order to accommodate a very few dozen politically correct bicycles. There's got to be way of using the space to hold more bicycles securely in the given area. Hasn't there? -- BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 CB125 SL125 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3 BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells..... |
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In article 1i5m5tc.1s27lum15gp188N%chateau.murray.takethisou
..com, The Older Gentleman writes There's got to be way of using the space to hold more bicycles securely in the given area. Hasn't there? Give your man Boris a shout, he has managed to pack half a dozen away where no one can see them so he should know. -- steve auvache A Bloo one with built in safety features |
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (The Older Gentleman) saying something like: There's got to be way of using the space to hold more bicycles securely in the given area. Hasn't there? Bury the Town Councillors bum up. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the river cleaned out in a day. |
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Cycle bays - waste of space?
On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:20:53 +0100, Membrane
wrote: (The Older Gentleman) wrote: There's got to be way of using the space to hold more bicycles securely in the given area. Hasn't there? How about a more efficient way to park motorcycles?: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-imag.../03/05/ch1.jpg I've always thought it'd be a good idea to do a critical mass type of thing where zillions of bicycles park en masse in car parking bays, one per bay, having bought valid tickets, etc. Then sit back and video the results. As an art installatio, it ranks right up there with laying down green carpet and potted plants in the same parking bays. |
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Marc Brett wrote:
I've always thought it'd be a good idea to do a critical mass type of thing where zillions of bicycles park en masse in car parking bays, one per bay, having bought valid tickets, etc. Then sit back and video the results. As an art installatio, it ranks right up there with laying down green carpet and potted plants in the same parking bays. That's a tremendously good idea. Let's organise it. Luke -- Red Rose Ramblings, the diary of an Essex boy in exile in Lancashire http://www.shrimper.org.uk |
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"Marc Brett" wrote in message ... I've always thought it'd be a good idea to do a critical mass type of thing where zillions of bicycles park en masse in car parking bays, one per bay, having bought valid tickets, etc. Then sit back and video the results. As an art installatio, it ranks right up there with laying down green carpet and potted plants in the same parking bays. Your cunning plan falls apart at the buying valid tickets stage. They are valid only for cars....... |
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In article , Grimly
Curmudgeon says... Bury the Town Councillors bum up. But then they'll still be able to talk local politics. |
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The Older Gentleman wrote:
There's got to be way of using the space to hold more bicycles securely in the given area. Hasn't there? Amsterdam seems to have solved it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/doesnotcompute/190220421/ -- Dnc |
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