Copenhagen Reserved Parking
Typical Copenhagen. Someone needs to reserve this stretch of parking spots. For whatever reason, be it the arrival of a moving van or a temporary container. Who knows.
They used the traditional tape and orange pylons but this is often hardly a deterrent for motorists. I've tried this before and all too often a motorist will disregard your attempt to reserve the spot.
Finding parking is difficult in the centre of Copenhagen. It's frightfully expensive and the City removes 2-3% of all parking street-level parking each year, using the space for bicycle infrastructure or public spaces in general, be it trees, benches, what have you.
The solution above is simple. Mark off the space you need to reserve and then use some of those bicycles leaning against a building nearby, laying them down ever so nice.
A motorist may nudge a pylon out of the way but they will hardly hop out of their car to move a bicycle. Case closed. Problem solved. Copenhagen style.
9 thinking out louds:
uh..ya..nice solution..
Okay ... I'll never lean my bike against a wall in Copenhagen. :)
I like it! of course, in my country you'd have some flat bicycles under some SUVs if you tried that.
Wow, I love this reservation technique. It reminds me to one action of the Reclaim the Streets movement where they paid for a parking lot for a few hours and put carpets of grass there and a bank for people to sit on ...
Happy cycling!
Daniel - I think this is similar.. http://www.parkingday.org/
Very impressive.
The statistic mentioned in this article is great: "the City removes 2-3% of parking a year and reallocates it to public use.." Can anyone point me to more info on this, or other such statistics - are other Cities touting such public space reclaiming schemes?
cheers
Pittsburgh has a particular tradition in using a chair (typically, a kitchen chair) to reserve parking in front of one's house. It sprang from the history of heavy snows and the difficulty of shoveling a space for one's own car and, rather than having someone else come along and take advantage of all the shoveling one had done, a chair was placed to reserve the space. No matter how decrepit or ramshackle the chair, or how important the space may be to someone else, the chair remains in place and the space remains reserved.
On the other hand, as Jolly Crank said, here in the burgh, if you tried to reserve the space with bicycles, they would not survive or, at best, would not hold the space.
Do people mind - coming back to their bikes and find them laying in the road?
I would definitely mind. Luckily I've never seen this particular practice here in Copenhagen. Like in Pittsburgh people use chairs.
i've seen it a few times here in CPH but chairs or other things are most popular.
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