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A long row of bike racks has been installed on the east side of the New Seasons Market currently alaska airlines vacations under construction on North Williams Avenue. While they take up only a small footprint of the overall site, the 30 staple racks have space for 60 bicycles — that s three more spaces than they ve allocated for auto parking.
The new New Seasons, set to open on August 28th of this year, is located on the block bound by Williams, Vancouver, Fremont and Cook. Both Williams and Vancouver (which run north/south) are among the busiest bike corridors in the entire city, so New Seasons is smart to make sure bike access is easy and pleasant. alaska airlines vacations This morning I spoke to the store s Director of Development Don Forrest to learn more about what we can expect in terms of bike access.
Forrest acknowledged that the 57 vehicle stalls is a pretty low amount of auto parking. But given the unique location along the bicycling corridors, he said, we thought it was prudent. Then he added that, It should be harder to find a vehicle parking stall than a bicycle parking stall. That s our goal. (Note: alaska airlines vacations The New Seasons on Hawthorne also has more bike parking than car parking .)
Currently, traffic on Williams is a mess whether alaska airlines vacations you re in a car or on a bike, but if all goes according to plan , we will see an entirely new road design by spring of 2014. The bike racks have been installed on the Williams side of the store and can be accessed via a driveway into the New Seasons parking lot. An overhang from the roof covers the racks and will keep folks dry(er) in the rain. They ve also built a ramp that connects the bike parking to the front (main entrance) to the store.
It s worth noting that the staple racks have been installed perpendicular to the wall. This is better than what we see at many businesses where racks are installed alaska airlines vacations parallel (or too close) to walls because it allows you to pull right in and it makes parking two bikes at each staple much easier. The sidewalk adjacent to the bike racks is also very wide, which means people with larger, cargo bikes and/or kids and such will have plenty of breathing room. One last notable thing about the racks is that New Seasons has anchored them into the ground with theft-proof bolts with smooth heads. This is important because thieves in Portland have been known to take bikes simply by unscrewing the staples from the ground.
Forrest says New Seasons alaska airlines vacations staff will have their own bicycle parking on the west side of the building. In addition, he said if the 60 spaces for customers isn t enough, they ll add more racks in the future. He said they re also considering a bicycle alaska airlines vacations service station on the site where you can work on your bike, put some air in your tires, and so on.
Another cool idea the store is working on is providing storage lockers for people who bike to the store. This is an idea I pitched to New Seasons several months ago and I was glad to hear it s still on the table. The idea is that people on bikes lack a backseat or secure place to put their gear/jackets/panniers and so on. Instead of seeing people lug their bike panniers into the store, I thought it would be cool for businesses to start providing gear lockers. It makes even more sense for a grocery alaska airlines vacations store because people who are lugging around less of their own stuff, are more likely to load up with more groceries. Forrest said the bike rider lockers would be located right inside the main doors near the deli. They re currently looking for locker vendor and working through this idea. I ll keep you posted.
One major issue that arose during PBOT s N Williams Traffic Operations and Safety Project was the need for a traffic signal at N. Cook, the street on the southern boundary of the market. PBOT s final project design includes a city-funded signal at Williams and Cook; but another signal is needed at Vancouver and Cook. Given the expense of signals — about $250,000 — the City asked New Seasons to lead a private effort to raise the money for the second signal
Forrest said today that, New Seasons took that on as a challenge alaska airlines vacations and the effort has taken a life of its own. Forrest reported that a coalition of businesses has come together alaska airlines vacations to raise the money for the Cook/Vancouver signal. The coalition includes New Seasons, Ivy Street Partners (a developer), Legacy Emanuel Hospital, and The Kaiser Group (a developer working on vacant alaska airlines vacations parcel just north of New Seasons).
The signals on N. Cook are essential to the traffic safety and flow issues around this block. They have even more urgency given the news that a 196-unit residential development alaska airlines vacations is likely coming to Cook (on the same block as New Seasons). Forrest said the development will have ground floor commercial along the north side of Cook and underground alaska airlines vacations parking.
With so much change in this area, and such mixed traffic demand on the streets, it will be very interesting to see how this all plays out. The New Seasons will be open for 6-10 months before the PBOT project is complete, so there will be a time gap and biking/driving alaska airlines vacations behavior learning curve for everyone.
We plan to monitor the traffic situation closely, says Forrest. He said New Seasons will do a traffic analysis a few weeks after their grand opening. alaska airlines vacations If any problems arise, he said they ll work with the City to remedy them.
yes, if you angle the racks they ll still fit in fact you could put 4x as many racks and they d still fit the problem is that if you angle them the amount of space between them decreases so you can t fit the bikes in between them without serious effort, if at all
A preferred method of securing a bike is to use a u-lock through the rear wheel and frame, and then around the bike rack. This method is preferred because the rear wheel is more expensive to replace because of the gear cassette. alaska airlines vacations Add a cable looped through the front wheel and back to the u-lock and you re about as secure as you can reasonably get. Racks that are too close to the building as these appear to be prevent locking up with in this fashion.
How is it prevented? alaska airlines vacations Unless the rack extends far behind the rear wheel, couldn t the rear wheel be placed next to the building and locked to one leg of the staple exactly as you describe? Yes, the front end would still stick out onto the sidewalk area a bit, but that isn t necessarily a huge problem.
A picture would be worth a thousand words right about now and I could not find a really alaska airlines vacations good one, but one in the link below may help explain what I mean. If you can imagine the rack in this photo being much closer to the wall, you can see getting that lock around the wheel, and the triangle of the rear frame, and then around the rear leg of the rack would be impossible. Yes, you could use the front leg of the rack, but the bike would extend out and I d rather not block the sidewalk.
A better suggestion would be to set aside a few racks off to the side that are rotated parallel to the building for cargo and long bikes to park at. This is now a pretty alaska airlines vacations common feature at most large commercial parking facilities alaska airlines vacations now.
The flower vendor at New Season s Seven Corners alaska airlines vacations store on Division has expropriated a number of the bike parking spaces at that store, which have not been replaced; I would note that the Seven Corners store also has substantially more auto parking than bike parking.
At other local groceries, such as the old Natures Fresh NW at 30th and Division, their bike racks were largely expropriated for shopping cart storage; alaska airlines vacations the same thing is happening at the new Hawthorne Safeway.
alaska airlines vacations Efforts by my employer to provide bike parking created conflict between customer service/marketing/admin personnel who comprise most of the bike commuters and the shipping receiving, order fulfillment, facilities department who have seen the areas formerly available to them for the completion of their duties now reserved for bicycle parking.
I ve never had trouble finding bike parking at the Seven Corners New Seasons, and I have no doubt that if there were bike parking alaska airlines vacations capacity issues, the store management would deal with them immediately. I also doubt that there s more car than bike parking. There are staples enough for at least 40 bikes (probably alaska airlines vacations more), and there aren t a huge number of car parking spots. You seem to be making an issue of something that is not.
Doug K pointed out in the article about the New Seasons on Hawthorne that all of this accommodation was in the public right of way and no on New Seasons property. Is that the same in this case? Just curious.
The Hawthorne store also has no loading dock and it creates a cluster F when trucks are parking alaska airlines vacations all over and in the center left turn lane. Parking in the left turn lane is illegal. Trucks block stop signs. Etc. I ve talked with management and they can only do so much. The truckers don t want to listen to me. PBOT gives me lip service. Just venting.
The only reason you would want to be in that left turn lane, is to make a turn onto 41st Ave. Since 41st Ave is a bike boulevard, you shouldn t be doing that in your car anyway! Just take 39th like yer supposed to ;-)
Jump to conclusions much? The parking in the center left turn lane is problematic for me WHEN I M ON MY BIKE TRYING TO CROSS HAWTHORNE. The trucks alaska airlines vacations block your vision and they also make it difficult for motor traffic alaska airlines vacations on Hawthorne to get by them. Jeez.
They certainly alaska airlines vacations know their customers in this area. Nice work. Is Cook a good alternative for reaching this location from the east? Fremont beyond MLK is a bit narrow for my taste, given the amount of traffic on it. Getting a signal at Cook would be a help, I d think.
Yes, cook cuts through alaska airlines vacations from the east from 7th to Vancouver and beyond. However, you d have a hard time crossing the uncontrolled MLK there on heavy traffic hours. Best to use a lighted crossing to get across MLK and then use Cook to reach Williams.
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