hi folks... i am going to be riding all around the city taking pictures of parking chairs... if you have recommendations of good streets/areas/neighborhoods/or a specific parking chair that is particularly great for some reason please post here, or say hi if you see me out and about.
here are the ones from lawrenceville: http://ography.org/parkingchairs/
I've seen some really tattered, missing-legs, un-sit-in-able parking chairs in Manchester, on Manhattan St. Genius, really...they're not even worth stealing, and look mildly infectious, so your parking chair remains unmolested.
Also, though not technically a chair, there's a set of what look like taped-together kitty litter jugs that are often out along Wharton, somewhere between 20th and 18th St.
southside is full of them. especially between the river and carson st.
ohh manchester... no one had pointed me in that direction yet... s.side on the river side is definitely on the list... thanks!
great idea mark.
Steve Patchan (i think) had a great idea that if we ever get tot he point where we want to try for on-street bike parking corrals, that the bike racks should look like lawn chairs
south 15th Street as it meets the pedestrian bridge over the railroad usually has 2 to 3 chairs or other object saving enough curb space for 2 cars.
i like when some people try to make it official by using an orange traffic cone
any updates from Steve or others regarding the on-street bike parking at OTB?
Just in the City? Or do you want close in suburban locations as well?
HAHA we should totally make parking chair bike parking.
Also I think that someone, for parking day, should make kind of a mock parking chair hang out in a parking space.
I think combining parking chairs and bike parking is pretty easy, don't you?
Or did you mean something else...
"any updates from Steve or others regarding the on-street bike parking at OTB? "
I think the issue is the parking lane is not always a parking lane so no permanent fixtures can be used in the road.
If you took two of the three rivers bike racks and put them parellell and about 3 ft apart, they could be the sides of a "chair." You could put a back on it and have it represent a chair.
If bikes could lock to the back in various fashions it might not be too much of a space-waster.
Mark, I think you have company:
The parking chairs should be out in full force once everybody shovels out their parking space after this snow.
St. Marie St. between Collins and Sheridan (East Liberty)...I think it's a couple spots behind the Lincoln Navigator limo (that apparently got its windows busted within the past few days).
Herron Ave. in Polish Hill, it's on the right side of the street after you turn onto Herron from Bigelow. I believe someone had stuck a orange-colored barrel or bucket on it the other day, which was new. Or the barrel was on the other one...oh well. Both were plastic chairs.
lots of parking chairs in the run gaurding car bunkers right now.
Yep. They are sprouting up in Morningside.
lol @ that PG parking chair thing... i would almost guarantee that was a direct result of internet wide parking chair soliciting by me... oh well... having a bike is really great for this kind of thing
i was going to recommend checking out the wikipedia article about it and recommend linking your photos to it, but looks like you beat me to it.
I just dug my neighbor out and explained to him the concept of parking chairs. Which is funny because neither of us are from here.
There's a really fantastic toilet chair (like this one: http://libertyhealthcare.aussiedesigns.com.au/portal/pic/Over%20Toilet%20Chair1255038828.jpg) usually on the corner of 39th and Mineral Way. It pretty much makes my morning commute.
not a chair...but pretty much sums it up
There was a nice exchange on the Freecycle list on Saturday...
OFFER: Lots of snow, Carrick
A few minutes later
RECEIVED: Lots of snow
Saw several parking chairs in the West End on my way out this morning. Caught a 26E, which uses Steuben Street. A couple right along Steuben, between Chartiers Ave and the WEnd Circle, and others in side streets near there.
erok,
i didn't update that wiki page... the internet is amazing...
thanks for all the tips everyone... at this point there are 3 on every block but if you see a particularly good one please give me a shout! (checking out the toilet tonight!)
how we drive blog also posted about it. gave you a little plug
http://www.howwedrive.com/2010/02/08/does-your-town-do-winter-parking-dibs/
I saw a sweet chair last night on negley near the intersection with friendship.
slightly off topic, but didn't the first edition (I bought it at hot house in lawrenceville) of "three rivers on two wheels" have a picture of Lou sitting in a snow covered parking chair???
I heard some guy (2nd hand) say he was just going to park his van down the street. Some people had cleared out a spot and put some chairs in but those would be no problem to move.
Not the best choice for reserving your snow bunker, but still cool...
I saw a whole bunch along California/Lincoln in Bellevue this morning, esp. near the curve by Mojobistro. One of them looked like a heavy wooden dining room chair, not cheap furniture but a really nice chair.
I heard some guy (2nd hand) say he was just going to park his van down the street. Some people had cleared out a spot and put some chairs in but those would be no problem to move.
Like, he was going to move their chairs and put his car there? Wow, he's brave.
^ Van guy going to move chairs? The very fabric of society would unravel. If he moved my chair, *shrug*, hey I don't own the street. Now, the two piles of 100 cubic feet of snow I moved by hand, on the other hand, would promptly go back to where I moved it from. If a van happened to be there, oh well.
I find the hostility regarding parking in this city quite fascinating. the snow has made an exponential contribution.
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