Riceburner
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.... give the stickers for free....
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah....cough....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
.... give the stickers for free....
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah....cough....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
Or in this over-regulated litigious culture of ours ... simply paint a yellow line down the middle of the space, label the south side next to the building as "Pedestrian Walkway", and label the north side as "Motorcycle Parking Access". Put a sign up at the curb saying "motorcycle parking, tenants only, all others will be removed" + the usual "park at your own risk" legalese. Oxford could then issue stickers to tenants to identify their bikes. They could charge a token amount (since its outdoor parking), or promote themselves as good guys and give the stickers for free.
Corporate rear end covered. Revenue, if any, goes to Oxford not the green hornets. Plus the remaining walkway is still wider than any walkway requirements the City could insist on through Site Plan Agreements.
It seems pretty clear to me. It is a pedestrian pathway. If the owners of the building turn a blind eye to bikes riding on it to get to the parking spots riders have created, and a pedestrian gets hit, guess who they sue?? Building owners are just being proactive so if a rider hits a pedestrian they can point out that they advised it was illegal to park there.
Totally agree, there must've been an incident for them to change their speech that drastically.Yep, a couple of bikes would slide under the radar. More than a dozen and odds are one of them is a turkey who will eventually burnout/wheelie/stoppie into a pedestrian.
Yep, a couple of bikes would slide under the radar. More than a dozen and odds are one of them is a turkey who will eventually burnout/wheelie/stoppie into a pedestrian.
Although i love this area, i just wish there was street parking close. Like even 500m within the area, all the potential spots are "no standing" and are made for tour buses to stop.But let's put it in context. I worked for years at 22 Front St., with dozens of bikes parked across the street just like in the picture. There was never an incident of a pedestrian injured.
Now here at this location is even better: this is a semi-enclosed space and the pedestrians are the co-workers (managers, HR, etc). Who is going to do anything stupid here? So unlikely.
But let's put it in context. I worked for years at 22 Front St., with dozens of bikes parked across the street just like in the picture. There was never an incident of a pedestrian injured.
Now here at this location is even better: this is a semi-enclosed space and the pedestrians are the co-workers (managers, HR, etc). Who is going to do anything stupid here? So unlikely.
It seems pretty clear to me. It is a pedestrian pathway. If the owners of the building turn a blind eye to bikes riding on it to get to the parking spots riders have created, and a pedestrian gets hit, guess who they sue??
As much as i understand that's it's not a moto parking area, there is definitely no space available for us. And if all these bikes TRY to park in individual parking spots even for a week, cars will get ****** as there won't be any spots available. They already had full house earlier this week with only cars in there, so imagine substracting another 25 spots...
Anyhow i guess i'll be trying to look into it with the fellow riders. Getting them involved is more difficult though
..... (and thoughts of heading back to NZ when I retire ;-)
No tenants there, just offices owned by RBC...I bet the relatively tight confines of the bridge and building produce a nice echo when someone revs their bike with an uncorked exhaust. Must thrill the tenants at the lower levels of the building.
funny thing though is we would also be able to get in and out of the underground without paying, and also if you pay with credit card i think its a "ticketless process"Every bike coming in early to consume the indoor paid parking with signs saying 'let us back under the offramp' sounds like a good strategy. But when one RBC VP can't find a spot, each rider will get personally tagged for this 'subversive' behaviour.
So then they ended up parking to the west lol (at least the scooters if i remember well)Maybe if people had walked their bikes to park, instead of riding them along the sidewalk.
The same type of thing happened at the east side of CBC, when the RBC tower was about to be built.