Post by Tony Fernandez on Jun 27, 2008 13:15:47 GMT -8
From the Bottleneck Blog:
"You fashion yourself a good person. You stop driving to work. You ride your bike to the rail station. You find that although billions were spent building rail bike racks -- a rather cheap, crude commodity -- they are in short supply.
You ask yourself how this can possibly be. Of course, if you want to insert a seven-letter curse word between the "possibly" and the "be," that's your choice. I will not stop you.
I asked MTA chief Roger Snoble about this at yesterday's news conference to unveil six new rapid bus lines and he said that he's aware of the situation. And, he said the MTA would be getting the Bottleneck Blog and the Road Sage some answers soon about how the problem can be remedied.
The above photo is of one of the two bike racks at the North Hollywood subway station. Both were filled yesterday. The photo at right is of a place perhaps a third bike rack can be placed.
And what's that below? Glad you asked. That's the minuscule bike rack at the Allen Street Gold Line station in Pasadena, where city officials and Caltrans have for two years been trying to find a place to put another rack so people like me don't have to lock their bikes to the decorative fence.
It should be noted that Pasadena officials will be at the big, big, big MTA meeting this morning, lobbying for millions of dollars to extend the Gold Line. That's fine and dandy. But just a suggestion: If you want the dough for the big things, show us you can do the little things that count first. "
latimesblogs.latimes.com/bottleneck/2008/06/pathetic-bike-r.html
So how bad is this situation and why is the MTA taking so long to get more bike racks?
"You fashion yourself a good person. You stop driving to work. You ride your bike to the rail station. You find that although billions were spent building rail bike racks -- a rather cheap, crude commodity -- they are in short supply.
You ask yourself how this can possibly be. Of course, if you want to insert a seven-letter curse word between the "possibly" and the "be," that's your choice. I will not stop you.
I asked MTA chief Roger Snoble about this at yesterday's news conference to unveil six new rapid bus lines and he said that he's aware of the situation. And, he said the MTA would be getting the Bottleneck Blog and the Road Sage some answers soon about how the problem can be remedied.
The above photo is of one of the two bike racks at the North Hollywood subway station. Both were filled yesterday. The photo at right is of a place perhaps a third bike rack can be placed.
And what's that below? Glad you asked. That's the minuscule bike rack at the Allen Street Gold Line station in Pasadena, where city officials and Caltrans have for two years been trying to find a place to put another rack so people like me don't have to lock their bikes to the decorative fence.
It should be noted that Pasadena officials will be at the big, big, big MTA meeting this morning, lobbying for millions of dollars to extend the Gold Line. That's fine and dandy. But just a suggestion: If you want the dough for the big things, show us you can do the little things that count first. "
latimesblogs.latimes.com/bottleneck/2008/06/pathetic-bike-r.html
So how bad is this situation and why is the MTA taking so long to get more bike racks?
