Also, just noticed, but the photo in the article is photoshopped. It’s in the Netherlands lol.
They’re honest about it, crediting the picture to “Tranzito with The Streetsblog Photoshop Desk”.
Odd choice to photoshop Mamdani sitting in front of an example elsewhere instead of just using a picture of a similar installation in another city.
Its kind of funny ngl
No shit
These are great, but at its core these are covered bicycle parking, you chain your bike inside the shelter. The shelter themselves are not locked, at least the ones I have come across and you generally share them with your surrounding neighbors as a communal bike storage.
These are perfect for residential and mixed use areas surrounded by low-rise to mid-rise developments, and help keep a bicycle dry, out of the elements, and organized. Especially in areas where larger city covered structures might not be as practical.
For example, something like this is very common infront a business/commercial building. These provide the same functionality with protection from the elements, organization, and a place to lock your bicycle to. These can also work infront of shopping centers or grocery stores.
Now indoor bicycle parking in a city center, take a look at this place in Amsterdam. I was blown away seeing this in person when I had a chance to visit.
Video to see this place in more detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqwasBTzZS8
Also worth showing these bike lockers. They are more secure in that each locker stores one average sized bicycle. These take up a little more place but do provide the extra security and have been used in a bunch of places around my area.
Also worth showing these bike lockers. They are more secure in that each locker stores one average sized bicycle. These take up a little more place but do provide the extra security and have been used in a bunch of places around my area.
Cool, homeless shelters!
I’m trying to move to the city center of Sao Paulo and finding space to keep our e-bikes safe at night has been the biggest difficulty of the process. The majority of buildings don’t have parking space, that’s great imo, but they also don’t have space for bikes. The elevators are miniscule and the bikes can’t enter. And private parking buildings cost a fortune. Something like that with a reasonable price (or free with time restrictions even better) would be great
As a Dutch person, my recommendation:
get a folding bike. They’re pretty cheap and useful primarily for biking a few km.
Alternatively, get an omafiets, make it look rusty and shoddy, but give it a few distinct characteristics so you can recognise it easily when stolen. Nobody wants to steal a bike that doesn’t look valuable, and yet is recognisable. You can also twist how it steers, takes training to bike on it, but thieves will always fall.
bike parking spaces in buildings are an open-buffet for bike thieves :/
Being able to chain them and a security camera is good enough for me. A broken chain and video evidence is enough to claim the insurance in it.
My friend locked his bike inside of apartment provided locked bike storage and they always had problems with people breaking in, cutting locks and stealing stuff.
Get folding bikes.
We used to had folding bikes before, but my wife hate them because she always get her hands dirty while folding/unfolding and ruining her clothes. That’s on the table, but is going to need to be a magnificent apartment with the best view ever and under our budget to convince her.
As the owner of a pair of (very) cheap (very) old Dahons, I understand what you mean.
I feel like the design details matter a lot and – though I hate to say it – it could be actually worth getting a Brompton, despite how overpriced they seem.
I’ve always wanted to just park an enclosed trailer on the street to use as a bike garage. I know the Dutch solution to bike storage is to just have a crappy enough bike that no one wants to steal it, and you dont care about leaving it in the elements, but I want nice bikes, lol.
If I can park a car on the same spot indefinitely, why can’t I do a trailer full of bikes?
Those bike lockers address theft, but not protection from the elements. They want it to be translucent for safety, but you could do that with plexiglass.
This!
I always found it very unfair that owning a car just gives people the privilege to just take up public space where the car stands 95% of the time doing nothing.
This is the strategy I would use, pay local bicycle stores to refurbish used bicycles that are fine but not worth much and crash the very bottom of the bicycle market out.
Don’t destroy the “nice bicycle” market just make sure the very bottom of the market is saturated.
Then bicycle theft for commuter/beater bicycles becomes stupid in most cases and local bicycle shops get work too.
Cool. Safe bike lanes are a higher priority for me but I’m not mad about this.
By the time all these NYC mayors are done there’s not going to be any room for pedestrians on the streets
It’s going to blow your mind when you realize city streets used to be fully pedestrianised before the car took that away from pedestrians.
Things like “sidewalks” were not a thing before the auto-industry. The street was the walkway. The public was essentially brainwashed on a massive scale with propaganda to not “jaywalk”, and to always use sides of the street, or what become know as the “sidewalk”.
But like, I like have car!?
