A concerned citizen does some bike counting outside the Apple Store on Boylston Street:
If there's a place bike racks are needed it's here ! Bikes attached all over the place! Maybe you can get Apple to make a large art piece for a bike rack! I'm counting 10 bikes locked to everything except bike racks!
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Problem all up and down Boylston
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 1:11pm
They need racks over by Trader Joe's, too. Very hard to find any sign or pole around to secure a bike.
We need more parking spaces
By JPHipster
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 10:14pm
We need more parking spaces too
Check out Davis Square sometime
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 10:44pm
24 bikes fit in a rack that takes up one parking space.
Some of those cyclists (myself included) bike instead of drive because that rack is available.
There's your additional parking spaces.
Maybe
By Wiffleball
Sun, 12/07/2014 - 12:26am
They could put one where the guy with that radio announcer voice who asks for handouts from TJ customers sits.
Maybe some Apple-branded racks
By Ari O
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 1:11pm
Reminds me: I need to hit up the A store today.
Also, email Nicole ([email protected]) and she can get the right person on this. There should be lots of bike racks on Boylston, and a cycletrack on the street, too.
Oh, wait, I forgot, we should just give cars free parking, because who walks, bikes or takes transit downtown?
Where is there free car
By anon
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 6:22pm
Where is there free car parking? Also, I walk so why would I need a place to lock myself up? lol That doesn't make any sense.
Click the link, anon. Your
By Biggie_Robs
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 6:55pm
Click the link, anon. Your first question will be answered.
For most of the year, there's
By anon
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 1:31pm
For most of the year, there's a Hubway station right there.
Yes ... and?
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 1:45pm
Unless Hubway stations have started having non-Hubway racks, that isn't going to solve the issue for people who bring their own when shopping in the area.
I sometimes take a Hubway to get stuff over there, but I can't carry nearly as much as I can on my personal bike.
Public transportation is
By anon
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 3:35pm
Public transportation is always an option if you can't carry everything you need on a hubway bike and you can't find a place to lock up your personal bike.
That's...
By lbb
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 5:52pm
...weaksauce.
So if I can't find a place to
By gotdatwmd
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 6:05pm
So if I can't find a place to secure my bike I should just go home and come back on a slow as fuck T bus or unreliable subway. Great.
or you can ride your bike home
By anon
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 7:38pm
get your car, drive back, then circle around the block for 30 minutes looking for parking like everyone else. I'm sure businesses in the back bay would be happy that you spent your money on gas and parking (or T or hubway) instead of in their stores.
I'm not sure which incredibly
By lbb
Sun, 12/07/2014 - 7:38pm
I'm not sure which incredibly stupid course of action you're endorsing here. Could you clarify?
Yes, the clarity you seek is
By foxorian
Tue, 12/09/2014 - 10:51am
Yes, the clarity you seek is that comment you're replying to is 100% tongue-in-cheek sarcasm.
No, it isn't
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 7:31pm
I cannot carry as much through the T as I can on my personal bike.
Not unless I bought a yard-sale baby stroller for the purpose ... I'm sure you would love that.
there's no hubway in my neighborhood
By anon
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 3:42pm
so I have to use my own bike to get to the back bay.
It's December. There are no
By Eric
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 9:01pm
It's December. There are no Hubways in any neighborhoods in Boston right now.
Wasn't Hubway extended to the end of December in Boston?
By Ron Newman
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 9:47pm
not in Somerville or Brookline, but in Boston itself.
yep
By anon
Sun, 12/07/2014 - 12:13am
but it still isn't in my neighborhood. we also don't have much bike infrastructure in the southern end of the city.
Most cyclists aren't casuals
By gotdatwmd
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 8:21pm
Most cyclists aren't casuals who use 45lb hulking steel machines that are in various states of repair and are only available for x amount of time per year so that solves nothing.
I'm afraid that complaining
By anon
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 3:34pm
I'm afraid that complaining on Universalhub isn't going to solve your problem. Contact the apple store and request they install a bike rack for their customers. If they don't have the authority to install one outside of the store then they certainly have plenty of space to install one on the inside.
Person didn't complain on Universal Hub
By adamg
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 5:50pm
Apologies for not making it clear: I browse Citizen Connect, which is the online face of the city complaint service, for interesting complaints, then post those. But nobody's filing citizen complaints on UHub.
I thought you made it clear
By brianjdamico
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 6:30pm
I thought you made it clear when you posted a visible hyperlink to the source...
I'm guessing that Tim Cook
By tenfortyseven
Sun, 12/07/2014 - 8:37am
I'm guessing that Tim Cook and Marty Walsh do not get a chance to read U-Hub every day, so why not just call the Apple Store and City Hall about this issue? I know it feels good to vent, or rant, or whatever you call it, but U-Hub is probably not gonna buy you those bike racks that you believe you're entitled to. How many comments so far on this issue, 30? I bet 30 calls to The store manager might actually make them sit up and take notice.
I'm guessing you didn't get a chance to read before commenting..
By peter
Mon, 12/08/2014 - 9:56am
This wasn't posted to UHub, it was sent to city hall. Adam has been reposting selected Citizen's Connect issues for ages now.
back bay needs a lot more bike parking
By anon
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 3:38pm
btw - the fire station on Boylston might let you lock up your bike to their fence if you ask...
Pru Construction?
By Hipsterpotamus
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 3:51pm
There was a bike rack across the street by the entrance to the Prudential Center. Boston Properties probably "forgot" to relocate it before beginning their latest office tower.
http://m.bizjournals.com/boston/real_estate/2014/1...
Holy exclamation points
By anon
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 4:55pm
Looks like that complaint was edited by a scorned Elaine Benes
Ride a 30 year-old second-hand Shogun
By tenfortyseven
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 5:43pm
1). I think most people don't believe this is an issue.
2). If I park my crappy old bike next to shinier, more desirable bikes (which is virtually every other bike in the world) I don't even have to lock it.
1). I think most people don't
By lbb
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 5:53pm
Most people are idiots, especially those who go by what most people believe.
Merry Christmas!
By tenfortyseven
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 10:05pm
You think most people are idiots? I'll go out on a limb and say that (gladly) most people don't share your pathetic, self-loathing & warped little perspective on the state of mankind.
Congratulations for playing
By lbb
Sun, 12/07/2014 - 7:44pm
Congratulations for playing of the "better holiday spirit than thou" card, that get-out-of-jail-free for the seasonally self-righteous to manufacture criticisms of others And you get double points for playing the even lamer "I'm gonna say what most people think even though I have no idea" card, because you did it not once but twice. Saying it twice doesn't make it any more true than it was the first time you said it. Unless you've got the data, maybe you should just stick to what YOU think -- there's nothing wrong with that. YOU don't think it's a problem. OK. We get that. Other people think it IS a problem. Satisfied?
I've seen some good racks there
By Hugh
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 8:32pm
But mostly in the summer.m
Prudential Center
By ChrisInEastie
Sun, 12/07/2014 - 12:19am
There used to be a few racks where the new tower is going, and I vaguely remember being told once that Apple played a part in them being there. There isn't really a viable place to put one close to the front of the store due to foot traffic, and anything close to the curb is on the city, not the businesses.
This is where
By ElizaLeila
Mon, 12/08/2014 - 10:05am
The Citizen's Connect complaint may be useful. The City can and has put pike racks on the sidewalk close to the curb. Well, at least in Hyde Sq on Centre St they have. In fact they're newly installed in the last year. I haven't researched the rest of the City.
Why not ask for valet bike
By kvn
Sun, 12/07/2014 - 8:35am
Why not ask for valet bike parking ?
What's bullshit is that they
By gotdatwmd
Sun, 12/07/2014 - 9:33am
What's bullshit is that they're purposely adding signs right under parking meters preventing them from being used to lock to.
The closest solution is the fence to the left of the store, which is a gray area (and there's usually hobos around there), across the street or down a little further.
Hobo is a great word; thank
By tenfortyseven
Sun, 12/07/2014 - 7:04pm
Hobo is a great word; thank you for using it
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