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.
I think it cuts both ways. If you're in a residential neighbor, would it not cross your mind that maybe that cleared out spot in front a house was done by the resident of the house? And that, based on that observation, you should perhaps not take that parking spot?
I think parking chairs are a novel and relatively neighborly solution to the issue.
And I'm with Ka_Jun...
We shoveled out our family car (singular) and my elderly neighbor's car. Since Saturday, I'd guess we spent a collective 15 hours on shoveling out vehicles. It mostly took so long because there isn't anywhere to put the snow. There was a car in front of us, and behind. Every shovel full had to be thrown or (in the case of ice chunks) carried across the street to a giant mound in the parking lane on the other side of the street.
Before this week I would never even think of putting a chair in a parking space, but with all that work just to clear snow, I parked a chair in the street and don't feel bad about it. Every single other person on our street also had lawn furniture out as well.
In Minnesota before a big storm they have snow emergencies, and people who park on one side of the street need to move their car. Plow comes, and they can move their car back. If you don't move it, it gets towed. There really isn't an issue with "thats MY spot" when you don't have to spend a whole day shoveling the street.
I'll be curious to see if the city initiates a similar program ahead of big storms. I think it would be difficult to implement in some neighborhoods, though.
^^^+1
I rarely park on the street, but since my apt. building managers refused to clear the driveway...that's where my car is for now. After 2 days of digging to get the car out of the garage, I felt sheepish putting the chairs on the street with the car at first, but I wasn't the only one on my street, so I didn't feel as bad.
I love the idea of a one-side of a street rule. Or better yet, non-residential streets with on-street parking should just close street parking altogether until plowed.
but, can you IMAGINE implementing a one-side of the street rule at the same time city-wide? how the hell would they enforce that? there's a reason they stagger the dates of street sweeping.
The rules span over 3 days, so not everyone in the whole city moves their cars all at once. First day, no parking on emergency routes, all other streets are fair game. Second day, park on either side of snow emergency routes, or on odd side of non-emergency routes. Third day, park on only even side of non-emergency routes, or anywhere on the emergency routes.
There are specific times for when you need to move your car each day, but if after 10am on day 1, they fully plow the emergency route to the curb, you can move your car there.
You can read about it here: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/snow/parking-info.asp
They announce "snow emergency is in effect" on the radio, tv, newspaper. You can't really miss it unless you live in a cave.
the best parking space 'chair' I saw so far...
I saw not one, but two parking LADDERS on Wightman this morning, between Beacon and Forbes. We're talking 8 foot step ladders. I guess when the snowbanks are taller than your chair, you break out a ladder to save your spot?
Being anti-parking chair that I am, I can still be angered by the fact one of my neighbors has been using the spot I dug out for 3 days straight, coming and going. It is one thing if you need it for an evening, but please...
@dmtroyer
If you don't put your chair in the space, why would your neighbor NOT take that spot? It's open.
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