Why We Must Stop Building Luxury Parking Garages For Our Bicycles

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:01:36 +0000

The other day, I was walking down Main Street to pick up a spool of twine at the hardware store. I noticed that the new mixed-use development on the corner has installed a subterranean, temperature-controlled bicycle storage facility. It features individual biometric lockers and a professional-grade bike wash station with reclaimed-glacier-water filtration.

I stood there for a long time watching a man in an expensive down vest struggle to find the right thumbprint setting to retrieve his carbon-fiber road bike. He looked very focused, as if he were landing a small aircraft. I remember when the only way to store your bike downtown was to lean it against a hitching post or a brick wall and hope the chain stayed on when you returned.

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Why We Must Stop Building Luxury Parking Garages For Our Bicycles