Tag: bike parking

April 27, 2012

What do you think of Seattle Center’s bike parking squid?

If the bike parking squid is any indication, Seattle Center’s “Next Fifty” is going to involve some crazy bike racks. Now, before you start ranting against art bike racks sacrificing utility for looks (it’s true!), can we also agree that this thing is super cool? No car parking garage will ever look like a sea…
(read more…)

tagged: bike parking, decorative metal arts, next fifty, parking squid, sdot, seattle center, susan robb
April 9, 2012

Bike to “The Kid with a Bike” at SIFF Cinema and save $$

SIFF Cinema Uptown wants you to bike to see The Kid With a Bike in Lower Queen Anne. To lure you, they’re offering $2 discounts on tickets. All you have to do is say you biked there. I chatted with SIFF Cinema’s new Outreach Assistant Naomi Salinas-Burton (formerly of Bike Works), who said the theater…
(read more…)

tagged: bicycle benefits, bike parking, lower queen anne, siff cinema, the kid with a bike
April 4, 2012

Lake City’s Kaffeeklatsch wants to keep unpermitted art bike rack

Lacking any place for customers to lock their bikes, Lake City’s Kaffeeklatsch coffee shop asked the city for a bike rack. However, as we reported one year ago, the city’s bike parking program was put on hold due to budget concerns. With a need for bike parking and no help from the city in sight, the…
(read more…)

tagged: bike parking, kaffeeklatsch, lake city, on-street bike parking
August 31, 2011

Bike Port in Pioneer Square to close in December

Bike Port, the Bicycle Alliance of Washington’s secure indoor bike parking facility attached to JRA Bike Shop in Pioneer Square, is closing at the end of the year. The service, housed at 3rd and Jackson, is membership-based and was created mainly to provide commuters with a secure bike parking facility near downtown with lockers and…
(read more…)

tagged: bicycle alliance of washington, bike parking, bike port, downtown, jra bike shop, pioneer square
May 26, 2011

SDOT bike parking program on hold, could be cut

In the face of budget cuts, SDOT has put the city’s bike parking program on hold and has offered it up to city leaders as a potential budget cut. From Sam Woods at SDOT: SDOT was required to offer cuts in our budget to make up for a significant shortfall in the city’s General Fund…
(read more…)

tagged: bike parking, budget cuts, commute seattle, on-street bike parking, sdot
December 3, 2010

UW bike parking use up 13%

A recent bike-counting survey at the University of Washington reveals a surge in bike parking usage on campus. Bike parking usage has gone up 12.8 percent since last year and 25 percent since 1995. From the UW report: The 2,745 bicycles counted in the 2010 Survey were the most in its fifteen year history. They…
(read more…)

tagged: bike parking, bike racks, bike thefts, university district, uw