WisDOT will be installing a permanent "Bike" Bike Rack on Monday if all goes well. It will be good for two bikes and will be in front off to the left in a visible location on a concrete area.
Check the following Web page page for how the rack will look: http://dero.com/bbike.html "Now get off your whine and go have a beer." "so many roads... so little time..." Mike Rewey [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Forster Rothbart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 4:13 PM > To: Bikies > Subject: [Bikies] more on bike parking at DMV > > Folks, > > After Matt, Paul, and others' conversation about bike parking at DMV, I > shared some of our discussion with a friend at the Isthmus, thinking they > (the rabble rousers that they are) might see it as a story possibility. > > I got the following response from Bill Lueders, Isthmus news editor. Send > comments directly to him, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 15:00:22 -0500 > From: Bill Lueders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: bike parking at DMV > > Could you please post this so that other listserv members can see it? > > Here's what I found: The city does have an ordinance, passed in 1988, > which requires that bicycle parking be provided as part of all new or > newly renovated building plans. George Carran, the city of Madison zoning > inspector, told me that the rule of thumb is one bike stall for every ten > auto stalls. The ordinance grandfathers in (and thus exempts) buildings > built before it was passed. > > The DMV building at 2001 Bartillon Dr. was platted in 1989, registered as > "land only" in 1990 and declared tax-exempt (meaning it was acquired by > the state) in 1991. That means the building was built after 1988. So it > should have to accommodate, bikes, right? > > Wrong. The state, under state law and litigated case law, is exempt from > local building code ordinances, except zoning ordinances as they pertain > to land use. Although the bike rack ordinance is enforced by city zoning, > city zoning does not consider it a land-use ordinance and agrees that > there is no obligation for the state to comply. > > The state DOT official I spoke to, and the building's on-site property > manager, say the issue of bicycle accommodation has never come up. No one > has ever asked about it. The property manager says people sometimes bike > to the facility and chain their bikes to poles, which is what I usually > do, even in places with bike racks. > > Here's what I wonder: Is the lack of bike parking at the state DMV > building at Bartillon Drive a sore spot for any of you? Would you type me > a sentence or two (please not much more) as to why you think it's a > problem for the state not to accommodate bikes? > > My email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
