Thursday, May 20, 2010
“Personally, I would love a full-service station with showers, lockers, a mechanic’s station, a place for a change of clothes,” said Scott Bricker, Bike Pittsburgh’s executive director. His organization is still brainstorming about how to develop that kind of facility.
When he noticed people seriously beginning to consider alternatives to driving, he thought perhaps more Downtown commuters would try biking to work if they had a secure place to leave their two-wheelers. An informal poll of his 10 Trek Development employees found, “If gas hit $10 a gallon, we’d get everybody to bike.”
Then gas prices fell, and the majority of workers kept driving.
But Mr. Gatti, who sometimes bikes to his Downtown office from his home in Shadyside, still believed that there was adequate demand for a bicycle commuter center.
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