Comment 43543

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted July 16, 2010 at 16:23:55

How successful we'll be at making these streets liveable has a lot to do with creativity, too.

Bike racks, for instance. Most of the City's bike racks (notably the ring/post ones) are a joke (especially when they could be taken apart with a wrench). They can barely fit two bikes unless you're going to lock to a friend's frame. The city's wrought-iron garbage cans downtown, however, are a godsend, can hold many more, and have a bar right at perfect level to lock up a road bike's top tube without even having to hunch down, and you still don't impede garbage can access.

So how can we build LRT stops and guard-rails to accomodate lots of bikes without dedicating expensive space and structures to the task? These are the kinds of questions we need to ask.

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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