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12-for-1 Parking Bike Corrals Bike corrals give cyclists a good place to park, free up the sidewalk and increase traffic to local businesses. to compete with trees, pedestrians and newspaper racks for sidewalk space. Bike corrals are one solution, and their use is spreading. Portland, OR and Columbia, MO have them. New York, Key West, FL and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada have them. Chicago, IL has them as a part of its Bike 2015 plan. Bike corrals give bikes a designated place, acknowledge their importance (which cyclists appreciate) and clear the sidewalk. Shop owners like the extra traffic, and have been known to pay for their installation. by Page Buono icycles are proliferating as high gas prices drive people to put their feet to the pedals and as the delights of biking are rediscovered. Bikes improve fitness and health, often replace short car trips and are a cheap, non-polluting, greenhouse gas-preventing form of transportation. But what do you do with them all? Bikes locked to parking meters, signs, each other and everything else in sight can become serious obstructions. Without some accommodation, cyclists are forced B What are they? Basically elongated bike racks, corrals can be installed in a parking space, where they allow 12 to 14 vehicles to park instead of one. The fixed element is often a staggered series of upside down U-shapes (or “staples”) or a metal spiral, though there’s no reason they couldn’t be more imaginative. The City of Portland paints the fixtures all blue, making them recognizable to users as city structures. Corrals themselves cost around $1,000. Labor and additions for stability and safety may bring the total to $3,000 to $4,000. November 2008 26 Photo Courtesy City of Portland http://www.bike2015plan.org/chapter3/chap3_obj2.html http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/10-finalists-picked-in-bike-rack-contest/ http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/10-finalists-picked-in-bike-rack-contest/ http://citiesgogreen.com

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CitiesGoGreen - November 2008 Contents In Motion Disaster Housing for $200: The Hexayurt Coming Soon: A Code-Ready Green Building Standard from ASHRAE ICMA Embraces Sustainability Fort Collins, Colorado Interview: ClimateWise, Business Smart 12-for-1 Parking: Bike Corrals Fresno County More Biking and Walking for Better Communities

CitiesGoGreen - November 2008

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