Eventual Lakewood "Bike Station"?
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 6:58 pm
More thoughts from Mike Gill....
"I think Bike Lakewood should build a package of information about a bike station, the purpose being to be ready to pitch it to whoever the developer is that eventually takes another crack at the Apartments on the West End. You remember the West End project, don't you? Next time I see you, I'll show you a letter that I ran--or maybe it was a column I wrote while I worked there--in the Lakewood Sun Post.
When the West End was proposed I urged that the developer include a bike station and visible connection to the Metroparks bike trail. WHoever develops that will almost certainly include a parking garage. Using a tiny corner of it for a bike station would be enormously promotable, and it wouldn't cost much, and it would have direct economic impact by providing the northern terminal of all those miles of metropark bike lane. It would become a destination, with places like Around the Corner, the West End, that juice bar if it's still there as beneficiaries. All those places would become more obvious to recreational day trippers on the valley trail. Whoever develops it could partner with the metroparks to promote. It'd be a big deal. I'll start to build that package of information. I'll speak with Kevin Butler and other councilpeople about it. I mentioned it to Dominic this morning, when I saw him at a meeting of stakeholders in that west shore commuter rail discussion. The idea seemed to catch his attention as something new, and he seemed to see value in it."
I (Tim Liston) have always wondered how that unused and almost falling down structure in Lakewood Park, right next the the Old Stone House, would work as a bike station. One thing about it that beats Mike's proposal is that buses stop nearby.
We need your thoughts....
"I think Bike Lakewood should build a package of information about a bike station, the purpose being to be ready to pitch it to whoever the developer is that eventually takes another crack at the Apartments on the West End. You remember the West End project, don't you? Next time I see you, I'll show you a letter that I ran--or maybe it was a column I wrote while I worked there--in the Lakewood Sun Post.
When the West End was proposed I urged that the developer include a bike station and visible connection to the Metroparks bike trail. WHoever develops that will almost certainly include a parking garage. Using a tiny corner of it for a bike station would be enormously promotable, and it wouldn't cost much, and it would have direct economic impact by providing the northern terminal of all those miles of metropark bike lane. It would become a destination, with places like Around the Corner, the West End, that juice bar if it's still there as beneficiaries. All those places would become more obvious to recreational day trippers on the valley trail. Whoever develops it could partner with the metroparks to promote. It'd be a big deal. I'll start to build that package of information. I'll speak with Kevin Butler and other councilpeople about it. I mentioned it to Dominic this morning, when I saw him at a meeting of stakeholders in that west shore commuter rail discussion. The idea seemed to catch his attention as something new, and he seemed to see value in it."
I (Tim Liston) have always wondered how that unused and almost falling down structure in Lakewood Park, right next the the Old Stone House, would work as a bike station. One thing about it that beats Mike's proposal is that buses stop nearby.
We need your thoughts....