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Posted by Bret Cahill on May 7, 2006, 8:04 pm
Certainly any office building could have an indoors bike rack.
We just need Martha Stewart or Donald Trump to say it is politically
correct.
Bret Cahill
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Posted by Adam Weiss on May 7, 2006, 10:42 pm
Bret Cahill wrote:
> Certainly any office building could have an indoors bike rack.
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> We just need Martha Stewart or Donald Trump to say it is politically
> correct.
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> Bret Cahill
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Who needs their OK? Just put the bikes in a secure area, out of sight.
Like a room off the bottom of the emergency stairs.
The point is to give the bikes their own sort of "garage", and putting
that space off the stairs means that people who arrive by bike also are
encouraged to get even more exercise climbing the stairs....
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Posted by Bret Cahill on May 7, 2006, 11:07 pm
< Who needs their OK?
Not me but everyone else seems to think bicycles are uglier than an 8
lier V8 SUV.
< Just put the bikes in a secure area, out of sight.
That's just the problem. They get stolen when they are "out of sight."
Bret Cahill
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Posted by Adam Weiss on May 8, 2006, 7:30 pm
Bret Cahill wrote:
> < Who needs their OK?
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> Not me but everyone else seems to think bicycles are uglier than an 8
> lier V8 SUV.
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> < Just put the bikes in a secure area, out of sight.
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> That's just the problem. They get stolen when they are "out of sight."
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> Bret Cahill
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Secure area, I said.
Behind a locked door (or an exit door that can't be opened from the
outside without a key).
Employees can get in and lock up their bikes. Thieves can't just come
by and take the bikes.
Of course there's always the possibility that an employee in the
building is a bike thief....
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Posted by Matt O'Toole on May 8, 2006, 2:36 pm
On Sun, 07 May 2006 17:04:10 -0700, Bret Cahill wrote:
> Certainly any office building could have an indoors bike rack.
>
> We just need Martha Stewart or Donald Trump to say it is politically
> correct.
Actually Trump could be a good ally. For all his bluster he's very good
at what he does. If his buildings had nice bike rack solutions, we could
point to them and say, "Look, Trump does it, and it hasn't hurt him
any..."
Seriously, does anyone here live or work near a Trump property? What kind
of bike parking solutions does he have?
The current climate of rising fuel prices, NYC transit strikes, etc., have
definitely raised bike awareness. If people like Trump can use these
issues for positive PR, they'll jump at. For example, look at Donald
Bren's personal website:
http://www.donald-bren.com/
So these days he's all about parks, open space, bike trails, etc. FWIW
his shopping centers and office parks generally have good bike racks.
The key to bike advocacy is to forge relationships with people like these,
and work on them continually for years, or decades. This is what
organizations like the Bikeleague should be doing. It is businessmen, not
governments, who drive development and shape the environments we live and
work in.
Matt O.
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