The Nomad is Home to Milwaukee’s Second On-Street Bike Corral
Nomad’s On-Street Bike Corral
Portland has 67 on-street bike corrals, while Milwaukee now has two. With the latest being installed this past week at the Nomad on the Lower East Side. The Nomad’s new bike corral is located in an unused space along Warren St., and just as Alterra’s on-street bike corral, its installation removed no automobile parking spots. In fact this installation added a net of sixteen (it added nine bike racks, while one rack was removed from the sidewalk) new parking spots for customers of the Nomad and surrounding businesses, albeit bicycle parking spots.
It is our understanding that Milwaukee’s third bike corral is in the works, so as soon as it is installed we’ll let you know. Additionally, we wanted to know from you, where might you think a new on-street bike corral could work? Let us know via email or the comments below.
Bay View could use 2: 1 by HiFi / Honeypie and the other in front of Babe’s / Riveria Maya (which I don’t believe is actually a parking spot but has plenty of room).
The narrow sidewalks in these areas make perfect sense of on-street bike parking.
And I’ll take a 3rd corral in front of my house to get my bikes out of my garage….
I’ll nominate a bike corral somewhere near the intersection of Lincoln & KK. With the construction underway at Alterra’s new location… they might already have that in the works though.
Otherwise, I would say Oakland Ave near Locust could use a corral… the sidewalks are pretty cramped over there.
@Jesse It is my understanding that the Bay View Alterra is going to have some of the nicest bike parking facilities around built in as part of the project, it’s gonna be first rate.
Alterra Foundry and a Benolux/ Public Market location.
Awesome! Glad to see it!
Happy to see this. I think it works especially well in this neighborhood considering the amount of bike traffic already.
I love the way that once people see this concept, everybody has an idea where another bike parking facility would be useful. I hope the street level bike rental program goes as well.
@AJ Oh yeah that corner saw a lot of bikes locked on all kinds of stuff… Hopefully this will alleviate that.
@Jeff Do you have any ideas of where a new corral should go?
Downer Ave. in front of Cafe Hollander
@Jerad 🙂 yup
I like it but I wish they would have made something that is more attractive like the Alterra rack.
Speaking of Alterra, I think that Bay View project looks great.
@Doug No doubt I love the Alterra rack, but most of the on-street corrals will be like this one. More simply functional, than artistic.
Last night while running I noticed an on-street bike corral has been installed at Cafe Hollander on Downer.
@Bob Yup… the third corral went in last week… here’s a story on it: http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2011/08/02/cafe-hollander-opens-milwaukees-third-on-street-bike-corral/ Also fill out the poll and let us know where you think the next corral should go! thanks