Japhy

Greetings-

I am on the design team for a large community college who is designing a downtown center. We are looking for options/suggestions for bicycle storage in the initial design development. Right now, we don't have any kind of hub or commuter bike center anywhere downtown. I am hoping to suggest more of a commuter hub with secure bike storage, lockers, and showers for all downtown users (not just building occupants) and maybe partnering with one or more of the LBS in town to provide service.

Does anyone have examples, suggestions, links, or photos of really great commuter hubs that I could take a look at for research?

Thanks!
J

jeph

not sure how this would work on a daily basis, but our county bike coalition does valet bike parking for events. They secure an area and give you tag etc. I wonder if this could be extended to a daily parking lot. It might need better security, chain link fence, razor wire, pit bulls Why not something like that? maybe there would need to be a charge. This isn't too out of line with other urban downtown car parking.

I have seen bike lockers but they seem to take up a lot of space.

Anyway, just thinking outloud.

Good Luck.

Drago1010

Check this link.
https://www.chicagobikestation.com/

If you contact them they may be able to give you more specific info

rickdog81

San Francisco Bay Area has bicycle check in (kinda like a coat check) in the BART (subway) stations. You can look into a set up like that for daily commuters especially if you have a subway in your downtown. Then supplement with regular bike racks around downtown.

Bikeforumuser0013

I created two articles on Wikipedia about bike stations.
1 - A list of all the bike stations in the US
2 - Bike station

I encourage anyone with relevant information to make contributions directly to the articles.