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Category: | Photos of parked cycles, on racks, railings, in shelters. Or photos of cycle racks themselves.: A problem that needs to be fixed |
Tags: | bikeparking, bikeracks, blakestreet, cycleparking, cycleracks, problem, sheffields, toastracks, trike, york |
Date time: | 3.53pm, Thursday 3rd November, 2022 |
Time line: | Earlier | Later |
Facing: | North |
Added by: | rebba |
Copyright: | CC Attribution-Share Alike (by-sa) |
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Credit: | Rebba |
Area: | Haxby |
[Image taken 3.11.22] Blake Street, York. There's- seemingly - room for a trike between the upstands here. Compare the racks this side of the space with those on the other. All are Sheffields but these are not linked - the others are which makes them 'toastracks'. Freestanding Sheffields are much more flexible. The spaces between, in front and at the ends can be varied. Plus there's no upstand - no raised linking rail. Some cycles are too heavy or unwieldy or laden - think shopping or occupied child seat(s). Some people can't lift a cycle up/onto a rail - and of course there are two per toastrack. And this has to be done twice - when parking and when leaving. Further, not every cycle will straddle the distance of the parallel linking rails which makes cycles unstable. The rails can also be a trip hazard. I stopped to see how well the racks here accommodated a trike. There would not be room in the stands opposite. Looks good in this image. But see: #187455.
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