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October 05, 2009

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This is a program that should be copied across the country by many other transit systems. The transit systems in southern California, including Orange County's OCTA don't operate bike stations. They should. It would make traveling by bike to finish the trip much easier. Hear the buses have bike racks outside on the front of the bus but these are sometimes hard for people to use. And if you don't want to take your bike with you, you have to chain iht to the bus shelter or the bus stop sign post and hope no one can cut the chain and take the bike while you are gone. Bike stations are deffinately a better way to go. Best wishes, Michael E. Bailey.

This is awesome. Wishing Atlanta had something similar.

Very Exciting! I was just in Denver and local bicycle advocates I met with shared with me that they'd love to see a Bikestation there too. Connecting bicycling with transit plays a key role in making our cities more livable. Thanks for all of your support.

What a great idea! I wonder if something like this could work in downtown L.A.

Are there plans to roll this out to other states? I think it's a brilliant idea, not new because there are lots of countries in Europe with those facilities, but it's a fantastic start....

The bike station appears to be very nice facility. It should be for $4 million!

Wake up America! It is time to stop spending and start saving. The Chinese basically own this bike station because we had to borrow the money from them.

Mark my word -- inflation is coming if this spending continues.

The one thing that strikes me about this is that Union Station is about the stupidest location for a bike station ever devised. The fact that people are using it despite the fact that it's bang in the center of a vast web of Metro and rail options suggests that there's a lot of money to be made by the folks who built it. Why? Because if you can make one of these work right in the center of DC where cycling is pretty much unnecessary, you can make it work even better anywhere that a Metro, rail or even a bus line ends.

The Bikestation is a great investment in promoting more people to bike to work. Who knows? It may possibly decrease the traffic congestion in D.C.

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