[SDCBC] Japanese Multi-Level Bicycle Parking

[Mike Elliott]

I'm not saying that we actually have a need for these things here in SD 
county, but whenever I look at those few locked and presumably 
spoken-for-forever bike lockers at the Carlsbad Coaster station I think 
that it would be swell to have a safe place at the station to leave a good 
bike for a few hours.

"The Multi-level bicycle park at Tokyo's Kasai Station might sound like a 
crazy overblown way to tidy up the streets, but the woeful lack of 
available parking spaces at most Japanese train stations is a real 
problem. In some places legal parks are impossible to find and private 
security guards are known for performing periodic sweeps where bicycles 
are tossed in the back of a truck and impounded. At 100 Yen (about $1) per 
day or 1,800 Yen (about $18) for a month, a multi-level parking spot is a 
lot cheaper than the impound fee. Here's hoping that they proliferate."

Video on the link:

http://gizmodo.com/381738/japanese-multi+level-bicycle-parking

-- 
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
Carlsbad