"Leave it to the City to mess up something as basic as a bike rack" was one of many frustrated comments we overheard while convening with other cyclists around the much-anticipated and finally-installed bike rack at the east end of the Humber Bay Shores Farmers' Market in Mimico this morning.
Alongside three picnic tables installed on a carefully constructed cement base stands the newly erected bicycle rack, an awkward metal contraption determined in its dimensions to prevent any sort of regular sized tire from sliding through its rungs and allowing the attached bike to be properly parked or safely locked up.
Alongside three picnic tables installed on a carefully constructed cement base stands the newly erected bicycle rack, an awkward metal contraption determined in its dimensions to prevent any sort of regular sized tire from sliding through its rungs and allowing the attached bike to be properly parked or safely locked up.
As my partner -- a former Program Coordinator for the City of Toronto's CanBike program -- exclaimed in disgust, "they've been doing bike parking for well over a decade in this city, you'd think they'd have it figured out by now!"
Apparently not.
Apparently not.
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Happily, this is west end Toronto, not Philly or Amsterdam, and so we felt reasonably confident that our bikes would survive our short meander through the market without being carted away. (They did.)
Nevertheless, it seems strange that the city would clearly have invested a significant chunk of change in a bike parking pad for this well-visited location, and then fail so miserably in adequately providing said amenity!
Nevertheless, it seems strange that the city would clearly have invested a significant chunk of change in a bike parking pad for this well-visited location, and then fail so miserably in adequately providing said amenity!
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