i can't see why they can't allocate a small area beside parking lot booths exclusively for bikes. you can fit a bunch of bikes into the footprint of a car. if you charge the same rate as the new bike lockers of $10/month, 10 bikes would be 100 bucks/month. the gov't could subsidize it so that it's compartively profitable. i'm sure subsidies would be cheaper than what they're doing now. damn, those guys are sitting in the booths doing nothing anyways. parking lots aren't always full and they'd have to be for another source of income. in japan, this is so rampantly commonplace. they've got old uniformed men patrolling around to check that bike parking has been paid for. bike parking is usually outside of train stations and they're jammed with bikes in the morning. for a country that's so rammed for space, they're still somehow able to set aside some for something as unreasonable as parking for bikes. damn..getting pissed thinking about it.