{"id":6046,"date":"2011-07-12T13:25:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T17:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=6046"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:08:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:08:59","slug":"parking-meter-to-bike-stand-conversion-fails-as-predicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/07\/12\/parking-meter-to-bike-stand-conversion-fails-as-predicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking meter to bike-stand conversion fails &#8212; as predicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5150\/5832154639_68000b6617_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We recently came across the above scene on Elgin Street between Waverley and Frank. All along the sidewalk, it&#8217;s\u00a0 a jumble of bikes locked to railings and bikes locked to other bikes; a classic Ottawa jumble of improvised bike parking.<\/p>\n<p>But what of those parking meter-to-bike post conversions we were promised last year? There was not a one along the whole length of the block; a block smack dab in the middle of a Centretown neighbourhood well-known for intensive bike ownership and usage.<\/p>\n<p>Even more aggravating, this shortage of street-side bike parking facilities is <a href=\"http:\/\/westsideaction.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/metering-thoughts.html\">unfolding exactly as predicted one year ago by Eric Darwin in his West Side Action blog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently came across the above scene on Elgin Street between Waverley and Frank. All along the sidewalk, it&#8217;s\u00a0 a jumble of bikes locked to railings and bikes locked to other bikes; a classic Ottawa jumble of improvised bike parking. 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