A little over a year ago I was introduced to Jedi Master Box. I'd never met somebody like him... actually... I still have yet to meet somebody like him. Anywho.... a few months later I ran into him at Barnsdall Art Park in East Hollywood when he said "Dude. Where'd you park your bike?" I was embarrassed to say I drove but managed to Jedi Mind Trick him and convince him that I didn't bike up Olive Hill because there was no proper bike parking. Which was the purpose of the conversation anyways. Months went by and I continued to dive up to Barnsdall for whatever reason I needed to go up there. On one of my most recent visits I made an astonishing observation. I ACTUALLY found bike parking. After carefully monitoring the situation I realized how ridiculous and pathetic the single rack was. Not only as you can see is it a single U-Lock but it seems to be surrounded by 6 posts to keep your bike safe. Awww..... how considerate.
Does this single bike parking make a difference? No
Does this single bike parking need to be protected like Fort Knox? Yes
Really? Yes. Because this single bike parking is directly in front of two handicapped spaces. I envision some geriatric driver who see's these yellow posts and mistakes them for a yellow light and then they floor it to make the light but eventually hit the posts that were meant to stop them but since the city probably did a half ass job of installing them they will no doubt succumb to the 1967 Ford Fairlane with the 427 Big Block and only 65,000 miles on it leaving your classic schwinn looking like some of the "Street Art" on Vermont and great grandma claims it was already like that before she got there.
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Hahaha! The best part is that it is positioned so that the wheels will stick out past the yellow poles.
(The most common placement mistake is made when the installers assume the bike goes through the U instead of alongside it, making two point of contact. Bikes on the whole don't fit through the U and even if they did, that's only one bike per U, not two)
Yeah, yeah! I know. Too much bike park(ing) information.
What Olive Hill really needs is some horse park(ing), Stepanian's Beer Kiosk and a Chilean Fish-on-a-Stick Booth.
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