[SDCBC] Japanese Multi-Level Bicycle Parking

[Stephan Vance]

Mike,

The plan for bike lockers in the count, brought to you by the bike locker
and bike map folks at RideLink, is to replace all of today's bike lockers
with electronically keyed lockers. The benefit to this is that an electronic
a key card will allow you to use any locker in the region. No individual
would exclusive rights to a locker. The trick to this system will be to
provide enough lockers at every location to meet the peak demand. Since over
half of all the 600 or so lockers in the region are empty at any given time,
it should be possible to meet that demand with fewer lockers than we need
today. 

The process of acquiring and deploying these lockers has been a little slow,
but I'm told it's coming.

Stephan Vance

-----Original Message-----
From: sdcbc-bounces at bikesandiego.org [mailto:sdcbc-bounces at bikesandiego.org]
On Behalf Of Mike Elliott
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 9:22 AM
To: Sdcbc
Subject: [SDCBC] Japanese Multi-Level Bicycle Parking

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
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