Same old ride today, up the High Trestle Trail and back, nice easy, familiar, boring, but not 8 blocks from my door. Something was a little different today though, there's an "oasis" about 6 miles from the start of the trail, and it has a porta john, water fountain, picnic table, and until this week, 3 inverted "U" or staple type bike racks. Those were removed and a day or two later, this thing was put in its place.
It's an old railroad track, that was reportedly found nearby and put in place by some kid of his eagle scout project. It's a more interesting bike rack to be sure, but i didn't find anything wrong with the old ones. Not that this is a place you'd ever lock a bike up, but I think it's a wash on bike capacity. Not really for or against the change, just bemused, not sure why it happened at all. Here's a pic with my bike against it for scale.
It's an old railroad track, that was reportedly found nearby and put in place by some kid of his eagle scout project. It's a more interesting bike rack to be sure, but i didn't find anything wrong with the old ones. Not that this is a place you'd ever lock a bike up, but I think it's a wash on bike capacity. Not really for or against the change, just bemused, not sure why it happened at all. Here's a pic with my bike against it for scale.
It's a cool idea, recycling-wise, but yeah. This wouldn't increase your capacity at all (not that that location looks like it needs to hold a lot of bikes). Better to leave the staple racks or have a redesign.
ReplyDeleteStupid scout kids.