Austin is also having a contest to design new bikeracks for downtown (idea evidently stolen from NYC, see my previous post).
Of note, the organizer said:
“We’re going to install plaques at the base of the sculptures that say ‘bike rack’ and take old junk bikes, paint them, and hook them up to the racks when they’re unveiled,”
So I suppose that means they are expecting less than obvious designs or else they figure us Austinites are just too dumb to figure out where to park our rides.
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