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One Way to Take Care of Business
The blogger at urban hippie sounds off:
so when talking to one of the music center bike cops, asking if we did have bike parking in the garage, he told me that they didn't and they would most likely not allow bike parking anywhere around the building because aesthetically it wouldn't go. huh? so, i don't have a place to lock up my bike when i go to see the l.a. phil or something at redcat because frank ghery didn't design a bike rack to go with the building? because the board of trustees see bikes as eye sores? well, why not just add racks to the back of the building, like at 2nd and hope or 1st and hope? this would keep the bikes from the front of the building where everyday i see happy tourists posing for the same picture in front of the main entrance. or what about inside the parking garage? out of sight, out of mind. right now, when cyclist come to see a show here they are locking their bikes up to the skinny trees along 2nd, the fence to the parking lot across the street or the railings inside the lobby. how is that functional? how is that a way to get people on their bikes?
In our experience, we find that quite a few parking garages have bicycle racks, but lack the signage informing you of it. At the Sherman Oaks Galleria, there are racks, but they are tucked in corner blocked by a wall near the valet area. The only way we found out was by asking a security guard.
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The lack of bike parking all over this city is ridicules. We need to petition for a parking minimum standard. We mandate building to have a certain number of parking spaces for cars, at a tremendous expense in land use and construction, when throwing up a few bike racks requires next to nothing by comparison. I hear LA Live is also lacking of adequate bike parking. Perhaps we should stage a Los Angeles bike parking revolt and show up to venues like this in mass and lock up bike pile style since they won't go to the tiny effort it takes to provide racks for bike parking. Argggg, I get all ranty about bike parking issues...
My two favorite Donald Shoup quotes:
"Parking is the single biggest land use in almost any city and almost everybody has ignored it."
"Everybody thinks parking is a personal problem not a policy problem"
Off-Street Parking and Shower Requirement
(LAMC 12.221A16) Provides for the inclusion of bicycle parking and employee showers in the new buildings 10,000 square feet or more.
Does Walt Disney Concert Hall not fall under this regulation?
I believe this city code was new as of 2008 and Disney was new as of 2003 or 04?
http://www.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/California/lamc/municipalcode/chapterixbuildingregulations?f=templates$fn=document-frame.htm$3.0#LPTOC1.38.7
It appears to have been passed in '99. I remember working at some dot-coms around then, in some pretty swanky new buildings. I remember they all had showers and bike racks.
Maybe somehow the Walt Disney Concert Hall must not fall under the LAMC classification for requiring bicycle parking? Interesting.
I heard something about the building is somehow under county code rather then city code, which allows it to get around the bicycle parking requirement. Not sure how you verify something like that, and how is that allowed in the first place if that is true?
Has anyone seen the "Velib" bicycle sharing program The City of Paris has?
I saw a PBS program in it. It's well thought out, moves a lot of people, employs a lot of people, and gets a lot of cars off the road.
LAMC = County facility. Disney hall is part of its campus.