[SDCBC] Bike parking facilities

[Jim Baross, Jr.]

It might be interesting and maybe even fruitful for promoting "the 
bicycling choice" to collect, report and publicize a sort of "onions 
and orchids" awards for the relative bicycling friendliness 
(environmental Green-ness) of companies, schools, other agencies. 
Anyone interested? Is anyone already doing something similar that 
bike parking could be added too... Env. Health Coalition, Sierra Club, ?

Jim (yeah, with just another good idea) Baross

At 06:48 AM 4/11/2008, John Eldon wrote:
>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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