Bike parking is beautiful

I am so slack.

Back in April, I mentioned the competition to design the new bike racks for New York City, then promptly forgot to keep an eye on it. The finalists were announced in July and it took an entry at treehugger and a reminder from tom before I bothered to mention it again today. I even saw this entry in the New York Times blogs and it didn’t register. But I got there in the end.

They all look both beautiful and practical, although I do wonder about the more curvy ones (especially that orange spirally one)—if people have trouble locking up to straight bars, how much more trouble will they have with something like that? A bike rack shouldn’t be a puzzle, although perversely the absent-minded may be forced to lock more carefully to an odd-shaped rack.

And given what’s happened lately, I’m not sure I’d feel comfortable locking up to David Byrne’s dollar sign rack!

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