I posted last week about how one year into the city’s big bike plan, there’s a two-year waitlist for businesses that want to install bike corrals.
Here’s what the city says on the matter, in it’s one-year bike plan update: “Following a six-fold annual increase to 30 installations in 2009, the bicycle corral program slowed in 2010 because of insufficient funding to keep up with demand.”
The corrals are installed at the request of businesses and it’s interesting to see who’s on the waitlist—some of these places are seriously lacking in bike parking, which makes it a hassle for customers who have to lock in unsafe places (like fences and trees) and may grumble about the business not supporting its bikey customers.
So below the cut, here’s the list!
Red Square Café
Holocene
Good Food Here Belmont
NightLight Lounge
Savoy
Pure Heart Yoga
Produce Row Cafe
Bread & Ink/Waffle Window
Gold Dust Meridian
Olympic Provisions
Blend Coffee House
Lucky Labrador Tap Room
Hop & Vine
An Hao Clinic
Coffeehouse Northwest
City Market NW
World Cup Coffee & Tea
Clever Cycles
Rogue Brewery
Art Institute Culinary School
REI
Gino’s pizza
Bridgeport Brewery
Red and Black Café
Barista/Hunt & Gather
Childpeace Montessori School
Corepower Yoga
Oblique Coffee
Ping
Alibi Restaurant & Lounge
Corkscrew Wine Bar & More
Coalition Brewing
Side Door, My Fathers Place, Slow Bar
East Burn
Triple Nickel Pub
Posies’ Cafe
West Coast Fitness
West Coast Fitness and Videorama
Dingos
Landmark Saloon
Baker Apartments
The Hilt
Sol Pops
Beauty Bar
Alameda Brewing
The Globe Bar/Café
Café Nell
Mio Sushi
Hair of the Dog Brewing Co
East Side Delicatessen Inc
Candy Korner
Hungry Tiger
Riyadh’s Lebanese Restaurant
Vincente’s Gourmet Pizza
Meat Cheese Bread
Lovejoy Bakers
Jimmy Johns Gourmet Sandwiches
Hawthorne HopHouse
Peoples Food
Hazelton Strong LLC
Fuel Café
Montessori Institute NW
Slappy Cakes/Vmt. tabor veterinary care
Southeast Grind
Can the process be sped up, or re-prioritized for businesses that are willing to contribute to the cost?
What kind of order is this list in? Priority? Random?
You just copied and pasted the list? C’mon, provide some value to those of us that sometimes visit your site from the RSS reader to get the below the cut information and put it all on a map.
@Graham – It’s in order of priority.
@Jeff – I don’t know! I called Sarah Figliozzi, who’s in charge of bike corrals for the city, and will post when I find out.
@Jeff – In regards to bumping your up way in the list by paying for the racks, Sarah Figliozzi of PBOT says, “Not right now, we don’t have that option.”
The city is trying to figure out a way to allow businesses to install their own bike corrals, based on city standards, or have the city install the racks and then invoice the business. But they first have to nail down what all the city criteria are for bike corrals, then they need to figure out some sort of permitting process from there.
Quite a few people on that list have parking lots of private property so they could build their own bike corals without city contribution. I think there is code for that or a lot of grocery stores should be tearing out their bike corals to avoid penalty.
The city has already taken care of SE Hawthorne with these covered racks.
http://bikeportland.org/2006/12/11/hawthor…
@Graham again – GAAHHH. So I was wrong. This list is not in order of priority. It is, indeed, random. And it turns out that there is no priority list in existence. The city builds bike corrals neighborhood by neighborhood, right now it’s building them on the Central Eastside. But even within the neighborhood, there’s not a list that spells out the timeline for where the next few will be built because the city goes back and forth with business owners and only at when all questions are answered and the city has the money, permits, and landlord okay can the corral actually break ground. #learning
Why in hell is it so hard and complicated to put up some bike corrals. Leave it to the city to bog it down in red tape. Why not let the businesses that want corrals buy them from a vendor that makes them to an approved plan and install them on their own?
Because the city can/will get sued by bikers/car drivers/businesses that find any/all reasons to sue them. There are safety concerns (you can’t put on on a Barbur or MLK without redesigning the street traffic flow in a major way, for example.)
I agree with comment #6. If there’s a dedicated parking lot, you should be converting those spaces into bike parking first.
what’s wrong with locking your bike to a tree? i lock my bike to parking meters and trees all the time. my suggestion: more parking meters. that raises revenue and provides bike parking. you’re welcome!
I could be wrong, but I think the list is in the order requested.