If you’ve noticed the lack of Queenseyes’ posts today, that’s because Newell is out working diligently on keeping the parking meters in place to transform them to bike racks. If you read his article from yesterday, you know this is a pretty important issue to many business owners across the city.
Besides being a great way to reuse the meters, it’s also a great way to promote green and city life styles. Newell told me that if four businesses banded together, they would only have to spend around $25 a piece to get a bike rack. If a whole block of businesses, say around 20 total, banded together, they could outfit their whole block with bike racks.
That’s some pretty awesome stuff, but it comes with challenges. Namely, that the meters are being removed every single day as scheduled without an end in sight. The city has called a special meeting this Friday to deal with the matter, but if the removal continues in the meantime, it may be too little too late.
Newell feels an immediate solution is necessary. This is not the time for committee forming and planning. A halt needs to occur if you’re going to try and find a solution, but the problem is, it needs to be a solution for now, not a solution for in a year or two. Transforming the meters into bike racks is a great idea and if you’d like to support it, Newell would love to get an e-mail from you at newell@buffalorising.com.