Post 6 – City Planning

Recently, I along with my sponsor and another coworker, met with a city planner about the placement of bike racks.  Since one of the smaller facets of my many sided project is using Google Earth to “drive” down streets and locate bike racks and mark them on a big city map, I showed the city planner where bike racks are located and where more need to be on various big-name streets like Superior, Carnegie, and Euclid.  From the wide array of people who live in Cleveland, the population that rides their bikes to work in the city is varied: some bike from necessity while others bike for the environment.  However, they are all alike in that they all need somewhere to park and secure their bikes during the day – an aspect of Cleveland that is non-existent in most parts.  That is the demand that both LMM and the city of Cleveland now recognize.  To fill the demand and please the public, Cleveland city-planners bought 150-200 bike racks from the LMM initiative and will begin placing them in places devoid of bike racks, places with high bike traffic, and places with low income because they cannot afford to install bike racks.