Eyes on the Street: Instant Bike Parking in Key West, Florida
Brad Aaron, back down in Key West for spring break, files this update from South Florida's bike-friendly isle.
By
Noah Kazis
2:07 PM PDT on April 12, 2012
Brad Aaron, back down in Key West for spring break, files this update from South Florida’s bike-friendly isle.
Spotted these guys installing a bike corral just off Duval Street, Key West’s main drag, on Monday afternoon. Parts of historic Old Town, at least, have recently been converted to muni-meter parking, but from what I could tell this facility was taking the place of a metered spot.
See the finished product, already getting use as of Tuesday, below.
Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox.
Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.
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