[SDCBC] Bike parking facilities

[John Eldon]

Since I commute via various combinations of transit, walking/jogging, cycling, and riding with friends, I normally keep one bicycle and helmet at work, frequently overnight and over weekends. Here is my experience regarding my most recent workplaces, covering the past 25 years:
1) TRW LSI Products, fancy new facility on Campus Point (near UTC & UCSD) -- self-important building super/security guys enforced strict "no bikes in building," provided crummy outdoor bike racks. I kept a junker in the racks for noontime rides or emergency transportation home, and it eventually got stolen.
2) same facility, now under enlightened facilities management -- I parked at the distant end of a little-used enclosed hallway.
3) Raytheon Semiconductor, Sorrento Mesa -- Our accommodating facilities manager helped me find a mutually acceptable place to park, in this case underneath the stairs in a locked indoor stairwell. 
4) Pulse~LINK, Carroll Canyon -- No one objected when I parked a bike in my cubicle, but space was pretty tight. As we began to outgrow out facility, I started parking a bike indoors in the back stairwell.
5) same company, larger facility, Carlsbad Airport Centre business park -- I worked with the facilities manager to get bike racks installed in the warehouse section of the building. One of the guys who works for me put two racks in an out-of-the-way corner immediately outside his office, and he and I currently use those.

Bottom line: Since the early 1990s I have had no trouble whatsoever in negotiating for secure indoor bicycle parking. All you need is an enlightened facilities manager instead of some clown who thinks he owns the building.


Kevin Reindl <kevin.reindl at gmail.com> wrote: Does anyone have any resources (guides, websites, etc.) regarding the best options for bike commuters in terms of parking facilities at their workplaces?
  
 I'd like to try and convince our managment to install better bike racks, etc. but I don't know what the best options are myself.
  

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