Comments on: Paragon, Patagonia Promote Pedaling, Pedestrianism

By: galvo

galvo — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:10:29 +0000

We need a list of business that provide poor,OK, better, and "the best" bicycle parking.
In Westchester, the soon to be opened New York Sports Club in Dobbs Ferry which is on the south county trailway has not provided any secure bicycle parking, they built lots of new parking spaces though. Large stores like whole foods should come up with some kind of safe valet parking.

By: mikez

mikez — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:58:12 +0000

Can't a business simply request the city to put in bike racks - I thought it was pretty easy. I understand the point about taking spots for cars etc. but it's not like there's a huge burden on a business to request a regular bike rack. Especially a biz that's as crunchy as Patagonia.

By: dreamon

dreamon — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:22:59 +0000

There's bike parking on Paragon's roof along with the espresso bar.

By: vnm

vnm — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:11:40 +0000

Clare, LOL.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:51:17 +0000

How can you ault a business for not providing bike parking when that should be the city's responsibility, as with car parking.

If a retailer is paying $100/$200 or whatever per square foot per year should they be expected to provide bike parking? NO. let the city convert ONE, just ONE car space per block to bike parking and you'd see a huge upswing in bike usage amonf shoppers.

But the city is too resistant to change to do that (and how would the strret sweepers function around the bike parking?) Oh me oh my.

If you think I kid look at the Ninth Ave bike lane built to accommodate snowplows before common sense.

By: Urbanis

Urbanis — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:23:44 +0000

To pick up on Charles' comment, I find it depressing that businesses like Paragon and Macy's claim to encourage cycling but fail to provide bicycle parking for their customers and staff.

By: tps12

tps12 — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:53:07 +0000

ONE FEWER CAR! I always thought "One car fewer!" sounded best, though "fewer car" is of course equally correct.

By: Angus Grieve-Smith

Angus Grieve-Smith — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:37:18 +0000

One less grammatical distinction that we in New York have to observe.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:26:16 +0000

Well, I mean... Paragon sells bikes (and bike shoes, and bike helmets, and the rest). Of course they're going to promote biking. This isn't environmentalism or conservation or anything else, it's just advertising their product using the terminology of the moment.

By: DV

DV — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:12:06 +0000

one more bike

By: Clare

Clare — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:39:54 +0000

ONE FEWER CAR!

By: Charles Komanoff

Charles Komanoff — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:59:50 +0000

Good to see Paragon ripping off, oops, using the venerable T.A. / Richard Rosenthal slogan. Better would be bike racks on both sides of their corner store. Yikes, I think my very first bike-advocacy letter was a 1976 customer request to Paragon for outdoor bike parking which they dismissed, as they did the handful of similar appeals I wrote later on, including as T.A. prez in the late eighties. I like the store and get good value there. It astounds me that they haven't lifted a finger for customer bike parking.