We noticed this rather stylish rack to park your bicycles in Tribeca last weekend. It also has seating for weary or over-pumped legs.
Anyone have any information on it?
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May 20, 2009
We noticed this rather stylish rack to park your bicycles in Tribeca last weekend. It also has seating for weary or over-pumped legs.
Anyone have any information on it?
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There are a few of them lining West Broadway. I think the raised design is supposed to help keep debris from falling through the subway air grating.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:04 am
More info about the bike racks http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/three-in-one-flood-protection-benches-and-bike-parking-in-a-new-design/
Apparently it is “prototype design to protect subway grates from flooding.” Clever.
May 20th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Didn’t NYC finish up a major Bike rack competition last year with the goal of standardizing the design? Where did this come from? Interesting and odd.
May 20th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Yes they’re designed to keep stormwater surcharge during heavy storms out of the subway. The raised grate needs to be unpopulated so that the subway continues to breath, the bike racks and benches return an amenity to the public and the seating is designed so that one doesn’t obstruct sidewalk traffic with their legs. I desigend them for the MTA and New York City Transit and they’ve installed at least 16 in Tribeca, where flooding was particularly heavy during the August 2007 storms.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:42 pm