Eyes on the Street: Instant Bike Parking in Key West, Florida [Updated]

Update: As of April 2015 this bike corral had been removed and replaced by a car parking spot.

By Noah Kazis

4:58 PM EDT on April 12, 2012

On-street bike parking being installed in Key West, Florida. Photo: Brad Aaron

Update: As of April 2015 this bike corral had been removed and replaced by a car parking spot.

Brad Aaron, back down in Key West for spring break, files this update from South Florida’s bike-friendly isle.

Spotted these guys installing a bike corral just off Duval Street, Key West’s main drag, on Monday afternoon. Parts of historic Old Town, at least, have recently been converted to muni-meter parking, but from what I could tell this facility was taking the place of a metered spot.

See the finished product, already getting use as of Tuesday, below.

The same bike corral in use, just a day later. Photo: Brad Aaron

Noah Kazis

Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox. Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.

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