See one of the art bike racks in Portland, and a link to Portland's application and vetting process for art bike rack installation, here:
http://www.portlandonline.com/transportation/index.cfm?&a=184578&c=34813 Artistic bike racks are fine as long as they meet similar standards for use (and actual, as opposed to theoretical, capacity). The serpent, which is basically a glorified wave rack, pictured at the top of the article looks like it accommodates two, possibly up to four, bikes (i.e. fewer than a standard wave rack, and even standard wave racks don't meet the standards in the city of Madison or UW-Madison. chuck ________________________________ From: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 9:55 AM Subject: Re: [Bikies] creative bike racks Sort of cool, except that it's really hard to tell that they're bike racks - esp. that second picture - and it's hard to tell exactly how one might lock to them with a u-lock. I scrolled through the comments and saw that one poster wrote that a city employee almost cut through a person's bike frame to remove it from the "artwork," but the bike owner was fortunate enough to get back in time to intervene. Why not just put in regular bike racks in funky colors? Sounds fun enough to me. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2008-11-02-bike-rack-art_N.htm
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