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Monday, April 24, 2000
File photo
Bicycle racks and bike bins have been popping up around
town as part of the city's Honolulu Bike Master Plan.
City racks up points
toward a bicycle-
friendly town
The thing about bicycle racks is that they generally don't remind you of their function. They range from slots cut in felled telephone poles to wavy pipes that look like a plumbing problem gone berserk to a hideous grate-like thing, like radiator grills pretending to be a teepee.
Last fall, the bicycle racks pictured here began popping up around Honolulu, and they continue to appear. We didn't have to tell you they were bike racks. You knew by looking at them. Function follows form.
The bike racks are an off-the-rack product, and the city spent $10,000 purchasing them. They're installed by road-maintenance crews.
There are actually two designs. The other looks like a traditional hitching rack with two half-circles grafted on, and those are largely placed in Chinatown and Waikiki.
It's all part of the city's Honolulu Bike Master Plan, making it easier for people to use bicycles as an alternative mode of transportation. It's been in effect a year now, and the goal is to make Honolulu one of the bike-friendliest cities in the country.
Another bike-friendly change has been the addition of bike bins on the front of city busses, and TheBus reports these are already being used at the rate of about 20,000 loadings a month.
More transportation monies are being set aside to create safer bikeways.
By Burl Burlingame
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