Getting Americans to Bike to Work Requires Decent Parking. By Tom Vanderbilt, State, August 17, 2009. "A number of American cities are now waking up to the fact that providing bicycle parking makes sense... The Bicycle Access Bill, recently signed into law after a New York City Council vote of 46-1... will require the owners of commercial buildings with a freight elevator to allow people to enter the building with a bicycle... Philadelphia recently amended its zoning requirements to mandate that certain new developments provide bicycle parking; Pittsburgh's planning department is weighing requiring one bicycle parking space for every 20,000 square feet of development (admittedly modest compared with the not-uncommon car equation of one parking space per 250 square feet); even the car-centric enclave of Orange County, Calif., is getting in on the act, with Santa Ana's City Council unanimously passing a bill requiring proportional bicycle parking when car parking is provided. In Chicago, Los Angeles, and other cities, pilot projects are investigating turning car-parking meters -- once semireliable bike-parking spots, now rendered obsolete by 'smart meter' payment systems -- into bike parking infrastructure."
2009-08-20
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