Because bike parking is often on private property, it's difficult for cyclists to know where they can find it.
A group of Las Vegas cyclists has built a map of over 2,100 bike parking locations in the Las Vegas Valley, an amenity usually missing from official bike route maps.
As Kea Wilson explains in Streetsblog USA, "Because bike racks are often sited on private land — and because they’re not legally required by most city building codes, unlike car parking — many local governments have no idea where cyclists can publicly lock up, and do little to proactively increase the share of available spots." The BikeRackMap offers information about bike rack locations and conditions.
Project founder Craig Davis says "By making the map searchable by company as well as by neighborhood, Davis hopes advocates can pressure the property owners who install bad racks to do better — particularly if those owners are corporations with a stated commitment to promoting public health."
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