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Seven bikes take up less space than a single SUV (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The solution is bike lockers. It’s an important piece of public infrastructure that often gets overlooked.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I think this is Japan I'm thinking of, but they have these amazing underground automated parking spaces for bicycles. You load your bike into this elevator-type thing and get back a ticket, and the elevator takes the bike underground and deposits it in a sort of cubbyhole. Completely safe and takes up no space above-ground except for the little kiosk. Not a fucking chance in hell that a US city would ever invest in something like that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do they often have those in places other than subway/train transit hubs? I’ve never seen them anywhere else here (US southwest). And honestly I didn’t even know they were a thing before I moved here, public infrastructure in the US is so fucked.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They are usually near major train and bus hubs. There’s plenty around Vancouver and I’ve seen them in a couple places around LA, too. That said, outside of major progressive cities, they are practically non-existent, especially in the US.

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