Wednesday, May 27, 2009

MBAC - Chicago Bicycle Program (prototypes)

A channel to the side of staircases makes it easy for bicyclists to move their bikes up onto the train platform
Today, bringing your bike through the turnstile is a small juggling act. This prototype makes it a little easy to handle your bike, your fare card, and the turnstile.
Storing your bike on the train is a bit obnoxious, both for the bicyclist and the other passengers. This design dedicates a space for bikes.

A very excellent design from Chicago. All rider should love that!
But it's impossible occurs in HK this recent year.

from: MBAC

Cheers,
AirwalkFixedGear

3 comments:

  1. =v= These are interesting. Where did you find them?

    I don't like the third design because someone might be sitting in one of those fold-up seats. With the right capacity planning you can have a dedicated bike storage area without losing ridership; in fact it builds ridership!

    I disagree that it's obnoxious to bring a bike onto a train. Passengers have to solve the "last mile problem" -- getting to and from the train stations -- and bikes do that with less impact than burdening transit systems or using cars. Systems for parking bikes are helpful, but these can be more expensive than bringing bikes onboard.

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  2. These are from here:
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chicago-IL/MBAC-Chicago-Bicycle-Program/79804894359

    And here:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesbondsv/sets/72157615800603611/

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  3. It's a Amazing design, but does work in Hong Kong.

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