RE: Farmer's Market Bike Parking I believe the reason why there hasn't been bike parking at the farmer's market is because it's not free. It's a service that most orgs. charge for as they have to pay staff to set it up and manage the parking.
Saris will sometimes provide parking at no cost if someone else can transport racks and manage it, but if it's a regular event like the farmer's market, it would probably be best if it was contracted out for each Saturday and managed by one of the orgs. who can staff and manage it. There also has to be space set aside that's approved by the city. It's tough because a lot of space around the square is already allocated to vendors or is needed for vehicle parking. I've worked and set up a fair share of bike valets. Just my input, but someone from one of the orgs. could probably go into more detail. -Cassandra On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 3:31 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Bikies mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Bikies digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Farmers Market bike parking (Hans Noeldner) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:31:41 -0500 > From: "Hans Noeldner" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [Bikies] Farmers Market bike parking > Message-ID: <00b801cfa448$d9a14860$8ce3d920$@net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Do any of you know whether any entity has ever organized temporary bike > parking for the downtown Madison Farmer's Market? If not, these might be > good opportunities for Sustain Dane, the Bike Fed, and other > sustainability/conservation organizations to promote themselves. > > > > Perhaps the City would be willing to help make it happen. In addition to > reducing auto traffic downtown, bike parking near the Square would relieve > the sidewalks of cyclists taking along their bicycles as they (we) walk to > the stalls. > > > > Hans Noeldner > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.danenet.org/private.cgi/bikies-danenet.org/attachments/20140720/c33a9a14/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Bikies Digest, Vol 69, Issue 13 > ************************************** >
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