Create Good Bike Parking
Oct. 18th, 2021 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Here are some tips for good bike parking.
It's good to have bike racks near apartment buildings, storefronts, parks, or other places people congregate. Bikers spend more money than drivers when shopping, and biking improves health. If your area has high bike traffic, check for other amenities such as a bike wash, repair rack, or publicly accessible showers. These raise the appeal and comfort of biking to better serve a busy bike community.
It's good to have bike racks near apartment buildings, storefronts, parks, or other places people congregate. Bikers spend more money than drivers when shopping, and biking improves health. If your area has high bike traffic, check for other amenities such as a bike wash, repair rack, or publicly accessible showers. These raise the appeal and comfort of biking to better serve a busy bike community.
Re: Well ...
Date: 2021-10-20 09:06 am (UTC)* If you require a license to use a bicycle, fewer people will bike.
* If you require bicycles to be registered, fewer people will bike and they will own fewer bikes.
* If you require helmets and other safety equipment to bike, fewer people will bike and some will do so in hidden places where help is less available in case of accidents.
* If you charge money in the above or other ways, you make biking unaffordable to many more people.
* If biking requires interacting with any kind of official, people with bad experiences of officials will avoid biking.
Of course, once you've killed off the biking activity in your area, you no longer need the program, so it shuts down.
T-America handles it with honey instead of vinegar. A bike license is not required, but is the first form of ID that most people earn as children. (Another is a bus pass in its ID form, but that's usually a little later.) It indicates that you're responsible enough to travel locally so people don't pester you. Registry is optional but gets you perks, like fairly good retrieval of stolen bikes and sometimes a free repair day. You can register individual bikes on a pay-per-piece basis, but if you have a bike license, then all your bikes are covered. There are services that just give a sticker, but the police have real metal license plates that are difficult for thieves to get off.