Thanks for posting this. That block is really bad for parking in the bike lane. More often than not someone is parked there on my weekday commute. A dry cleaner, a donut chain, a bank - all places where patrons could be expected to want to make a very quick visit. Clearly this is either a bad place for a bike lane or a bad place for that kind of retail - at least configured as such. A strip mall of course would be worse being one of the worst kinds of urban blight. At the other extreme, it seems like a viable solution would be to just get these lazy cagers to stop driving cars.
A better idea, one that would make money for the city, and be easier to implement would be to install parking meters, to increase the parking space turnover rate. If parking meters are already installed, the rates should be raised.
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Posted on Thu, Jul 17 2008 at 12:59 PM
Thanks for posting this. That block is really bad for parking in the bike lane. More often than not someone is parked there on my weekday commute. A dry cleaner, a donut chain, a bank - all places where patrons could be expected to want to make a very quick visit. Clearly this is either a bad place for a bike lane or a bad place for that kind of retail - at least configured as such. A strip mall of course would be worse being one of the worst kinds of urban blight. At the other extreme, it seems like a viable solution would be to just get these lazy cagers to stop driving cars.
Posted on Tue, Aug 26 2008 at 10:48 PM
A better idea, one that would make money for the city, and be easier to implement would be to install parking meters, to increase the parking space turnover rate. If parking meters are already installed, the rates should be raised.