Bicycle Blueprint - Garage Parking

Introduction

NYC Cycling
1. NYC Bike Policy
2. State of NYC Cycling
3. Cyclists & Streets
“A Bike and a Prayer”

Riding Infrastructure
4. Street Design
5. Bridges
6. Road Surfaces
7. Greenways
8. Parks
9. Bicycles and Transit
10. Reducing Traffic

Security
11. Bicycle Theft
12. On-Street Parking

Indoor Parking

On the Job Cycling
14. Bicycle Messengers
“Fifth, Park & Madison”
15. Freight Cycles
16. Gov't Cycling

Reducing Risks
17. Accidents
“Three Who Died”
18. Air Pollution

Bicycle Education
19. Schools
20. Public Education

Appendices

Chapter 13:
Indoor Bicycle Parking
a) Why Indoor Access
b) Gaining Indoor Bicycle Access
c) Creating Indoor Bicycle Parking

Garage Parking
e) Mandatory Building Access
f) Chapter 13 Recommendations
Sidebar: Bicycle Lockers
Figure 13: Demonstrations of Bike Parking

Tom Jenen

Private garage at Avenue of Americas and 30th Street in midtown offers bicycle parking.
Photo: Tom Jenen.

Garage Parking

Read the latest news on this subject.

Freelancers and employees of smaller firms also deserve bike parking facilities, although they or their firms rarely have enough leverage to win parking concessions from building owners. Aggressive promotion of bike parking in public garages could create secure spaces for such workers.

A pilot Midtown garage-parking program launched in September 1992 is already showing the promise of such an approach. Responding to initiatives by Transportation Alternatives, NYC Consumer Affairs Commissioner Mark Green and the Metropolitan Parking Association arranged for eight privately-owned parking garages to install supervised bike racks. Usage is rising as word of the program has spread among NYC bicyclists. [4]

NYC Consumer Affairs Commissioner Mark Green, announcing garage bicycle-parking program, with T.A. president Ann Sullivan and director Jon Orcutt, and Metropolitan Parking Association director Mac Victor
Photo: Tom Micoli.

City government — through the DoT and Dept. of General Services — also runs its own parking garages, where bike racks could be placed immediately by administrative order. Currently the DoT is lagging behind Consumer Affairs and the private sector on this type of secure bike parking. Some city garages still have bike parking signs (and possibly racks) from an experiment conducted in the early 1980s. [5]

Check out the current list of NYC parking garages that accept bicycles.

NOTES:

4. “Parking Garages Open Doors to Bikes,” City Cyclist, Sept-Oct 1992, p. 2.
5. Municipal garages on West 53rd Street (between Broadway and 8th Avenue), at Essex and Delancey, and at Police Plaza, have free, heavily used bike racks.

a) Why Indoor Access
b) Gaining Indoor Bicycle Access
c) Creating Indoor Bicycle Parking

Garage Parking
e) Mandatory Building Access
f) Chapter 13 Recommendations
Sidebar: Bicycle Lockers
Figure 13: Demonstrations of Bike Parking