Austinist: Downtown Austin Alliance Looking For Nice Racks

SevCostanza

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:53:21 -0600

Inspiration came from the program in Louisville. http://www.ldmd.org/streetscape/bikeracks.aspx It's better than the one's I've seen in NY and hope their programs looks more like the Louisville one instead.

ducknutz

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:19:17 -0600

For $30,000 they could put a sign at the airport that says: "Welcome to Austin! No vacancies."

austinmaverick

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:59:22 -0600

DAA, Please, Please, Please find a better use for 30 THOUSAND dollars than 3 bike racks. If you want to beautify downtown, how bout putting that money towards feeding the homeless, cleaning up all the urine, enforcing drug laws? If you want to promote bicycle commuting, how about buying $30k of real bike racks and putting them throughout downtown and disseminating some pro-bicycle commuting information? Please tell me Austinites aren't so vain as to blow thirty thousand dollars on something so Austin can look more like New York.

Grape Ape

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:27:04 -0600

Maybe they can make them out of a reflective blue colored material that will illuminate the sky with a blue glow when the lights from cars reflect...oh wait, we already tried that for the same price.

LoudMouth

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:38:12 -0600

Shit. Give me some rebar and a torch and a $100 and I'll come up with some goddamn artistic looking bike racks. Just don't give me $10,000 for them because then I'd feel guilty about robbing all you gullible fools.

LoudMouth

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:36:17 -0600

If the best NYC can come up with is some stupid-looking stick figures designed by a musician that can't hold more than two bikes a piece, what the hell do you think Austin artists are going to come up with? And WTF are they spending $10,000 a piece on Fucking Bike Racks when the library, low income housing, and schools are in shambles?

mimi

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:59:44 -0600

Purpose: Art?

LoudMouth

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:10:12 -0600

None of those look very useful. What's the point of installing $10,000 bike racks when you can only lock 2 bikes at a time to them?

itzrad

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:42:37 -0600

These ones in New York? http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/new-bike-racks-courtesy-of-david-byrne/