Time Limit to Bike Parking?
Does anyone know if there’s a limit to how long a person is allowed to keep his bike locked up to a public bike rack? It’s an admittedly small gripe in the grand scheme of things, but someone locked up this Ross in our preferred parking spot in Dumbo a few weeks ago and has…
Does anyone know if there’s a limit to how long a person is allowed to keep his bike locked up to a public bike rack? It’s an admittedly small gripe in the grand scheme of things, but someone locked up this Ross in our preferred parking spot in Dumbo a few weeks ago and has yet to return for it. Bike parking’s at a premium around our office building and at a certain point this violates the social contract, no?
rob, i wish people would stop claiming that new yorkers love the traffic jams, poor air quality, and degraded street life that come with dedicating too much public space to automobiles.
the social contract….. is that a Karl Marx quote?
at least you have a parking spot
my landlord who owns a block or two around Taaffe Place with hundreds of apartments doesnt provide sh** and prohibits using objects on the sidewalk….
I understand what a social contract is, but can you explain how this violates it?
Because if you can’t, it seems you don’t like it when another is using a resource that you’re used to enjoying. Maybe someone else feels that same way about you when you’re always hogging up this spot when you bike to the office.
In any case, after enough time people will assume it’s abandoned and nature (and thieves) will take its course.
sell it on craigslist, stonehill
and i wish people would stop bringing up amsterdam. we are NOT amsterdam and most of us dont WANT to be some flakey 4th world european city. barf!
*rob*
I don’t think it’s such a small gripe – that is annoying. It’s also a potential for you to discover and observe this other, secret cyclist. Who are they? Where have they been for so long that they didn’t need their bike? Why do they come to DUMBO? Yet another story in the naked city, yes?
Hey does anyone know what to do when someone has left there bike chained infront of you house.
“Over at Livable Streets Initiative we are actually building a geo web app that will, among other things, allow New Yorkers to post photos, notes and locations of abandoned bikes on a web-based map to make it easier for city government to just send someone out once a week to all the locations and address the problem in a more centralized manner”
Now I’ve heard just about everything. 🙁
This is a very frustrating problem. Currently the city has no good way to deal with this. If you call 311 they will tell you that this is a local precinct problem. You need to call your local precinct and, if they feel like being responsive, the cops will come and tag the bike with note then return a week or so later to clip the lock. But if your precinct is like most precincts you will have to make multiple phone calls to get the police to lift a finger.
Over at Livable Streets Initiative we are actually building a geo web app that will, among other things, allow New Yorkers to post photos, notes and locations of abandoned bikes on a web-based map to make it easier for city government to just send someone out once a week to all the locations and address the problem in a more centralized manner. You’d also be able to use this map to request new bike racks in your neighborhood. More here:
http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/06/05/bike-racks-coming-to-a-neighborhood-near-you/
quote:
“our preferred parking spot”
:-/
*rob*