Warren Towers Loses 12 Car Parking Spots to 447 Swipe Access Bike Parking Spots.
Posted by greg in UncategorizedBike parking in Warren Towers just got a whole lot more awesome. A snippet from the BU Today article:
“the University has converted a computer room at 504 Park Drive to an indoor parking space and appropriated 12 parking spots and a chunk of Kinko’s storage space to create the Warren Towers first floor facility.
Tucked off Cummington Street, Warren’s space is accessible with a swipe of a BU I.D. A chain-link fence surrounds rows of black bike racks arranged like hurdles. On a far wall, metal hooks and sturdy chains accommodate vertically mounted bikes. Warren Towers residents and faculty and staff get first dibs for two weeks after the site opens. Remaining slots will go to registered cyclists interested in the program.
Craig Hill, associate vice president for auxiliary services, says the University spent $55,000 for the Warren Towers storage area and $15,000 for the South Campus site. “This is part of the University’s investment in alternative, greener methods of commuting around campus,” Hill says.
The parking facilities are free, but cyclists are required to register their bikes with Parking and Transportation Services.
From January to September this year, according to Officer Peter Shin, BU Police registered 120 bikes. Atherton’s office added at least another 92 bikes to that list since taking over in September.
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So if you live in Warren and own a bike, do register your bike with Parking and Transportation/BUPD to gain card access to this sweet facility.
In case you haven’t noticed, there are a whole bunch of new bike racks outside the entrance to Warren Towers too. Parking and Transportation has done an excellent job
It’s great to see the University adapting to and accommodating for the sudden increase in cyclists in the past year, and how space that could previously only park 12 cars can now park 447 bikes. At this year’s Splash, I had no good answer for the incoming freshmen who asked me where to lock up their bike if they lived in Warren, but with the new racks in front and this new facility, I now have an excellent answer for the future. Hopefully BU will be able to keep up with bike parking in the coming years as well, so we’ll consistently see much less of this:
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While I love bike parking….making the south campus computer room/study lounge into one is terrible. South campus now has no space available for group or individual study.
I guarantee it will not see more than 2 bikes. The only reason people walked down the dark, rat infested alley to get to that building was because of how important the computer lab was. Why park a bike there when you can just stick it inside the building you live in?
It kills me that they can spend $15,000 on a bike racks that I could probably build for less than 1k, and yet theres no budget for computers.
Ill add this:
I think its great what they did in Warren. But a few years ago they converted the shelton fitness center into a bike parking room. Its not a “great new feature” when theyve taken away something better to create it!