(Photo © J. Maus)
Now you’ll be able to park your bike at the carfree evening planned for viewing the lights on Peacock Lane this Sunday.
I reported a couple weeks ago that the neighborhood association wanted to encourage people to ride their bikes over to Peacock lane to enjoy the light, but they weren’t sure how it would work out to have people actually riding bikes through what is expected to be a crowded event with lots of kids.
They eventually decided, wisely I think, to ask everyone to enjoy the lights on foot, either walking their bikes or finding somewhere to walk them.
Thanks to the quick thinking of local bike activist Aaron Tarfman, and the timely support of Transportation Options, there will now be bike parking at the event.
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The parking, provided by Jeff Castro’s BikeRacker (see our profile of Jeff and his now-ubiquitous blue racks here), there will be about 50 bike parking spots in the street at each end of the block.
You’ll also find BikeRackers available outside the BikeCraft fair this Wednesday. As more and more people get on bikes, parking has become more and more of an issue at a wide range of events — and in some cases, lack of parking can be a serious problem.
BikeRacker has appeared on the scene just in time to accommodate a skyrocketing need, and it’s great to see a new local bike-oriented business in such hot demand.