All of this was discussed in the Mayor´s Platinum Bicycling Committee Report, 4/200, page 22
"Complete a public bicycle parking needs study for the central city area." * Details: May include need for covered parking, signing, rental bicycle lockers, on demand bicycle lockers, and/or a bike station (bike stations should be located in central employment areas). Investigate installation of a bicycle station and/or bicycle cages and/or electronic on-demand bicycle lockers. See examples of on- demand lockers at: http:/www.bikelink.org/ * Responsible Party: Traffic Engineering and Planning with assistance from Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin or outside consultant * Performance Measure: A parking study is completed. * Timeline: Winter 2009. * Resources: Cost of study is nothing new. ALSO on page 37 "Bicycle parking should be provided at all city buildings and transit centers." * Details: Covered short-term parking and secure long-term parking should be provided at all current and future transit transfer points, light/commuter rail stations, bus stations, and park and ride lots. Secure, long term bicycle parking should be installed at these locations. Example might include rented or pay-by- hour bicycle lockers. Parking should also be provided at major bus stops. In addition, the city will upgrade all current city racks to meet the zoning ordinance and will assure that all city buildings, libraries and parks have bicycle parking. * Responsible Party: Mayor´s Office, Madison Metro, Library Board, and Parks * Performance Measure: Bicycle parking is provided * Timeline: Ongoing * Resources: Staff time and cost of racks It is 5 years since the report and nothing has happened regarding on-demand bike lockers. Check out www.bikelink.org Mike Rewey On 3 Jul 2013 at 20:35, Paul T. O'Leary wrote: It could work like BCycle Madison, where they issue you a card (actually a small RFID fob in the case of BCycle), but you can also use the credit card you used to purchase the card to identify yourself at the kiosk. Slot availability could be provided real-time online, just like BCycle, with info at a full location of the nearest location(s) with openings. BCycle could be the perfect model for this, logistically. In fact, they should consider expanding into this business. And it doesn't have to be just for a "nice" bike. If you don't want to lug your helmet, gloves, hi-viz vest, etc. around, throw it all in the locker when you park. Looks like rain, and no covered parking nearby? Rent-a-locker. Picked up more at the farmers' market / gift fair / book sale / beer store than you can carry home in one trip? Stick it in a nearby rent-a-locker, ride your first load home, unload, come back for the rest. I've done this and more with the locker I lease (I say "lease" because you pay by the year, not by the month), and yes, I was on the waiting list for it for THREE years, which speaks to the demand for such facilities. On 2013/07/03 08:42, S. Morris Rose wrote: > Here's a technology I've never seen deployed before: > > http://metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bike/parking/index.html#on-demand-e > lockers > > (This is in Seattle- that's a minor city near Tacoma that doesn't > even have a single professional basketball team.) > > The basic idea is that you can rent one of these bike lockers by the > hour using a single-purpose credit card sized wallet. Users pay a > nickel an hour for time they reserve at the time of rental and > twelve cents an hour for overtime. The cards start with $20 of > value, which is 400 hours of reserved time, and can be reloaded in > various ways. Seems well thought out and affordable, though it would > be nice to be able to use the card for other stuff, or use other > stuff (NFC cell phone?) to use the system. One issue is that users > can't know in advance if a slot will be available, so need a plan B. > > It will be interesting to see if this succeeds. If so, I would guess > that it will eventually be possible to check and reserve space > online to solve the Plan B problem, use other devices to transact, > and use them as budget love hotels. > > -- > Scott M. Rose > West Point Grey, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada -- Paul T. O'Leary Chronic Nuisance Madison, WI USA _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
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