Now that the North Park branch of the library system has moved to a plaza adjacent to Kmart, would you still ride your bike there? Would you be more likely to utilize the branch? What kind of bike racks do you find to be the easiest and most effective to use?
I'm not huge on riding my bike into big parking lots, due to the potential for cars backing out and such. But that said, the plaza's not high-traffic enough to be too much of a worry, and as long as bikers, drivers, and pedestrians are cautious, it's no problem.
ReplyDeleteA longer multi-unit bike rack would be ideal -- preferably within easy view of the library entrance but not so close as to block entry, etc. Wave racks are good and solid, and work for different sizes of bikes. That'd probably be my pick for a style of rack. The Heights has a couple of wave racks installed around the Parks Community Center -- longer-scale, higher-capacity ones are available through a number of vendors.
The old grid-style racks, if the columns are too close together, don't work for locking the frame with a U-bolt -- you can only fit the wheel in there. At Kenilworth Branch library (which has an old free-standing style grid rack), I have to park my bike on the end of the rack in order to have it properly locked.