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Also: It's pretty remarkable how many bikes can fit in the size of say, 2 car park spaces.

by sundvor 8y ago

tialaramex 8y ago
However, some of your employees can't use bikes, so this isn't an entirely fair comparison. All the employees could arrive by car (not all of them might drive, but the nice thing about cars is that they take passengers). Thus it may make sense to have 10 parking spaces worth of bike racks, and 5 parking spaces, but it doesn't make sense to switch to 15 parking spaces worth of bike racks... and no parking.
- jdavis703 8y ago
  If there's someone coming as a passenger why not have them arrive by public transportation or even pedi-cab?
- Ntrails 8y ago
  Depends entirely where you live. If there are people commuting to work by car every day in Central London, they're too senior for me to have encountered them.
  - tialaramex 8y ago
    That's fair, I have worked in a Central London building where the car park is so ludicrously expensive most people who have a space there don't actually have any time to drive places in their own car, so their cars just sit there getting dusty over years. There's some really nice motors down there (it's a basement obviously) from what you can see - but they have an actual layer of dust on them. Anybody with a normal job in that building can't afford to park there. Still, to make _that_ work London has a mandate for all its cabs and buses to carry wheelchairs, all new public transport infrastructure is step-free, at which point cycling is largely symbolic, I know people who do it but I also know people who live in the centre (yes in Central London, no they aren't wealthy enough to park in that car park) and walk to work and again, it's largely symbolic, like, I'm sure it makes some difference, but compared to the costs imposed by people driving to work in cities that don't have working public transit it's nothing.

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Also: It's pretty remarkable how many bikes can fit in the size of say, 2 car park spaces.

by sundvor 8y ago

Also: It's pretty remarkable how many bikes can fit in the size of say, 2 car park spaces.

tialaramex 8y ago
However, some of your employees can't use bikes, so this isn't an entirely fair comparison. All the employees could arrive by car (not all of them might drive, but the nice thing about cars is that they take passengers). Thus it may make sense to have 10 parking spaces worth of bike racks, and 5 parking spaces, but it doesn't make sense to switch to 15 parking spaces worth of bike racks... and no parking.
- jdavis703 8y ago
  If there's someone coming as a passenger why not have them arrive by public transportation or even pedi-cab?
- Ntrails 8y ago
  Depends entirely where you live. If there are people commuting to work by car every day in Central London, they're too senior for me to have encountered them.
  - tialaramex 8y ago
    That's fair, I have worked in a Central London building where the car park is so ludicrously expensive most people who have a space there don't actually have any time to drive places in their own car, so their cars just sit there getting dusty over years. There's some really nice motors down there (it's a basement obviously) from what you can see - but they have an actual layer of dust on them. Anybody with a normal job in that building can't afford to park there. Still, to make _that_ work London has a mandate for all its cabs and buses to carry wheelchairs, all new public transport infrastructure is step-free, at which point cycling is largely symbolic, I know people who do it but I also know people who live in the centre (yes in Central London, no they aren't wealthy enough to park in that car park) and walk to work and again, it's largely symbolic, like, I'm sure it makes some difference, but compared to the costs imposed by people driving to work in cities that don't have working public transit it's nothing.