I think some early beat bike blog post was about a coworker and me wondering around downtown, marking spots on the sidewalk and then making a map of where to put bike racks. This was like four years ago. There were subsequent spreadsheets and meetings and boring government things you don't want to know about it. Then, nothing happened.
I gave up on the whole concept of anything ever happening, but I got an email from Kevin Sullivan (the ccba guy, not former lt. Governor) earlier this week declaring that some had gone in and they're going to continue to put them in this week. I haven't seen any yet with my own eyes, but I saw a picture of some in front of the library. Why the library got priority, I don't know, seeing how they already had some by the arch street entrance and there's a city hall bike rack right there, too.
Anyway, I'm going to stop complaining in the hopes that I can stop locking my bike to trash cans.
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Perhaps the racks got a kick start when I asked David Panagore what the hold up was at a Real Art Ways movie on urban life. Probably not. But I'm ok with squeaking some wheels.
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Any idea on the number of racks going in, and where they will be located?
287 total racks are on their way to various locations. Not just concentrated in downtown. I haven't seen the map, but Kevin Sullivan (fellow rack advocate) or the City of Hartford should have one available.
http://courantblogs.com/rick-green/finally-bike-racks-in-hartford/
Note: They need to tack weld or use special nuts on a couple of the studs per rack or the racks and bikes may not be that secure. I passed this on to Kevin Sullivan and he's working with the city to improve the security of the installation.
There's a spreadsheet of them.
I don't know if it's 100% accurate. Jen and I worked on it last year and things change. I'll send it to y'all.
Nevermind. My spreadsheet only has the downtown racks + 5 in Southwest.
"Note: They need to tack weld or use special nuts on a couple of the studs per rack or the racks and bikes may not be that secure. I passed this on to Kevin Sullivan and he's working with the city to improve the security of the installation."
Wait, those are just standard nuts? Will have to grab a socket set and find myself some new bikes.
Bike racks are like that all over the place. That's why I usually prefer actual stationary objects to bike racks.
I haven't seen any yet with my own eyes too, but I saw a picture of some in front of the library
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