A QUICK LOOK AT SOME OF THE STATISTICS THAT MAKE YOUR CITIES WORK (OR NOT):
Number of traffic jams on Beijing’s Friday Night: 140
You cannot get a snake to swallow an elephant: Chinese Traffic Metaphor
Coolest bike lanes: Portland, OR
Illegal bicycle parking in Copenhagen: Free oil chain and tire inflation
Number of illegally parked bicycles per day in April: 150
Illegal bicycle parking today: 30-50
% of creative class living within 500m of a subway which ride a subway: 45
% of service class living within 500m of a subway which ride a subway: 31
Reading your kindle while driving a bus: bad Idea
Cost to build Springfield’s monorail: $3 million
Cost to build Pinellas County’s theoretical monorail: $1.6 billion
Seattle’s Central Link LRT: $2.4 billion
Solution to frequent stopping: Amoeba train
% market share of hybrid vehicles worldwide: 1
Most common place to find America’s “Largest Things”: Roadside
World’s biggest catsup bottle: Collinsville, IL
How to foster transit behaviour in your child: Public Transportation Lego
How to never miss your train in Switzerland: Swisstrains.Ch
Reasons for not taking transit in LA: A lot
How to ensure your child never takes transit: 80’s pictures of New York’s subway
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Re: Illegal bicycle parking today: 30-50
Bicycle Butlers sound charming, but how would they unlock and relock your bike without a key? I’m surprised no one gets angry but I guess if I found my bike after thinking it was stolen, I’d just be happy to see it again…
@rose
I think in Europe bikes commonly just have a lock which prevents the rear wheel from turning, and as such prevents the bike from being ridden away. As such it is possible to just lift the entire bike and move it.
a delightful theory, but i’m pretty sure that if you only had that kind of lock in amsterdam you’d find your bike at the bottom of a canal
See the following article related to Copenhagen
http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/10/bike-racks-with-no-racks-in-copenhagen.html
Yes it seems crazy to me too. In New Zealand I always lock to something. Sorry about grouping all European countries together. Its been a while since I’ve been in the northern hemisphere.
That’s right. It works. You just shouldn’t do the same with the newest bike in town.
I see some of those here and the new and expensive bike’s are always connected to something and they use a big lock.
But again: those can be described as the Bentley’s and Porsche’s of bikes. If you ride a regular and a little older bike then there should be no problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_a_Bike this is another option. works fine, but i also think it costs more than it brings in financially.
If you are worried (like mentioned a couple of times in Scott B’s link about Copenhagen) about your bike just being locked by the wheel – you could add a few street bollards with ears for the lock/chain to put through to the area.
In London biking became popular a few years ago and the city simply removed one or two regular parking spots for cars and added there parking spots for two-wheelers. Simple and works fine.