Chip – Great article on the bike
parking!
I am sorry that I had to leave the meeting
before the decisions were reached, but I did get to make a motion that we
consider groups of 4 lockers for a corner in each of the city garages. I mentioned
the Pubic Safety Garage and would also now like to include the
The article that you sent talks about the
use of lockers for day long and overnight parking, and this it what I think we
should also aim for in the use of the lockers so that people working at
businesses, teaching or assisting in classes, working at libraries or offices
will have a place they can ride to.
I am not comfortable with the plan for a
survey because I question who is going to learn about the survey. It might be just
a limited group of computer users who would find out about the survey and
actually follow up on the information. I am also very fearful that the committee
could be accused of spot locating lockers because of individual responses. As a
public entity, we cannot be “special ordering” lockers for
individuals. Our planning needs to be systematic – based on systems
thinking which locates lockers based on principles – such as proximity to
destinations, security, weather sheltering, critical mass, population density, etc.
From the discussion, I suggest that we ask
for $15,000 for bicycle parking lockers to enable the installation of 4 lockers
at each of the 3 main garages. If the costs of the lockers and freight exceed
the $15K amount, then I suggest that we ask Tom Arnold to assume responsibility
for the remaining costs from anticipated revenues. I also recommend that we
inform WVU (through Hugh) of what we are doing and hope that WVU might do the
same thing in their two main garages. (Perhaps they will want to do more at the
Engineering and the
Anyway, there are just my reactions to the
discussion and the article. I look forward to our next meeting and any
additional data that you come up with. Has a date been set for the next Parking
Meeting?
By the way, my input on suggested costs, after
looking at the article, would be 10 per month, 55 for six months and 100 per
year.
Don
From: Chip Wamsley [mailto:
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011
8:36 AM
To: Don Spencer; chip wamsley;
Hugh.Kierig@mail.wvu.edu; Gunnar Shogren; Jonathan Rosenbaum; Alice Vernon;
Frank Gmeindl
Cc: Bicycle Board
Subject: Re: [Bikeboard] Survey
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Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Frank Gmeindl <frank.gmeindl@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:11:10 -0500
Frank er al,
Here is a site that has some info on locker rates, even though it's from
2000. It looks like they are in the $75-85/year, not counting key
deposit. Some other good info on city bike parking ordinances as well.
http://www.bicyclinginfo.org/engineering/parking.cfm
Chip
>Parking Committee Members,
>
>As we discussed at this morning's meeting, we are going to do a survey to
determine who would use bike lockers, how much they would be willing to pay and
where we should put them. If you have additional ideas on what we should
try to learn with the survey or how we should construct the survey, please
reply-all with them.
>
>Thanks to all of you that turned out in these challenging conditions!
>
>Frank
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