After looking at the grid, it appears that the best approach is inside parking.  If schools are willing to provide an easy accessible room for bicycle storage that could be locked during the school day, that would make great sense, i.e. the third column of the grid when 4 < N <= 20 to > 100.  Also, I don't think temperature differentials during the winter would play that big of a factor as Nick mentions, I wouldn't want this argument to defer administrators from taking this route.

I understand why Bicycle Lockers only made it into the 2nd and 3rd column of <=4, because they are prohibitive in cost.  However, long term lockers would be perfect at WVU because students could rent them over the semester to defray the purchasing cost - this is a approach some Universities are using.  They would be great at student housing locations, for instance, I've been told that the development along the rail trail in Star City neglected to include any sort of bicycle storage which has in effect help defeat one of the advantages that come with this location.  It could be argued that several good action items could come from this.  :)

Bicycle shelters would be another favorable approach.  I found a really good link at http://www.bv.com.au/join-in/30021/ about a Ride2School program in Australia which is part of  Bicycle Victoria - "a self-funded community organisation, dedicated to getting more people cycling more often".   I observed that Nick happened to use a photo from their Bicycle Parking Handbook at  http://www.bv.com.au/change-the-world/30268/ so Nick and me must be on the same page.  Anyways the Ride2School program includes information on Funding a Bike Shed, How to Build a Bike Shed, Bike Shed Budgets Specs (down loadable layouts), and Campaigning for Bike Sheds.  I like how they emphasize using renewable/sustainable practices in building.  Both of these links (Ride2School & Handbook) provide useful reading.

And I found a $1,000 design put together by an Eagle Scout at http://www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/071107/sitka_20070711035.shtml .

There is a comprehensive list of  suppliers at http://www.bta4bikes.org/resources/bikeparking.php .

Good, we will go ahead and make meeting arrangements with the principals since there have been no objections to our proposal.

-Jonathan

Greg Good wrote: 
All, I agree with Frank. The photo grid is very effective. Greg

  
Frank Gmeindl <fgmeindl@verizon.net> 3/16/2008 9:31 AM >>>
        
Nick,

IMHO, your bike parking options pdf is one of the best presentations I 
have ever seen!  Using pictures to tell the story and dividing them into 
3 columns from short-term to long-term and into rows for numbers bikes 
accommodated not only provides at a glance the range of targets and 
options to meet them but also creates a *very compelling vision*. 

For presentation to the people Don listed, we should also provide vendor 
contact info for each of the options. 

(Of course, I'd be less than frank if I didn't say that the last row 
detracts from the otherwise completely positive spin that the 
presentation has.)

Frank

Frank Gmeindl wrote:
  
Nick,

I can arrange to put it on the Bicycle Board page on the City's web 
site after the Bicycle Board approves it.  I ask the Bicycle Board to 
review the file and reply-all with any comments.  Hopefully by this 
Friday, Nick will have your input and be able to finalize this and 
then I can ask Jeff Mikorski to put it on the web site. 

Frank

director wrote:
    
Don,
I agree, for starters I wonder if it could be added to the document archive on the Bike Board website.
http://www.morgantown.com/bike-board-docs.htm 

If there's anything that you think should be added let me know.
Nick

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Don Spencer" <dspencer36@comcast.net>
Date:  Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:03:52 -0400

  
      
Nick - I think that we need to walk this in to Chris Fletcher so that his
office becomes oriented to this information and can share it. It also needs
to go personally to Tom Arnold, Terry Hough, Mr. Duvono, Dave Bruffy, Hugh
Kierig, Chet Parsons, Bob Hamel, Bill Rumble and of course to Dan Boroff and
Jeff Mikorski, and others who have an influence of transportation facility
standards.

Don

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From: bikeboard-bounces@cheat.org [mailto:bikeboard-bounces@cheat.org] On
Behalf Of director 
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:05 PM
To: bikeboard@cheat.org 
Subject: [Bikeboard] Bike Parking options

Good afternoon,
Last night I spent about an hour collecting pictures and info on bike
parking options.  Instead of trying to list every vendor I organized the
info in a matrix according to the number of bikes to be store and the
duration of storage.  This should help us come up with an idea for the (1 or
more) parking systems needed at each high school.  I've attached a Lo-res
version of the pdf.  If someone has an idea where we could keep the
full-resolution version let me know.  I'd like to make it available on the
web so it's universally accessible.

Thanks.
Nick Hein


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Morgantown, WV
ph 304-276-0213
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