STREET SEAT - BIKE CORRAL HYBRID

Community Board 3
May 8, 2018

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 EXISTING CONDITIONS
SW corner of Orchard & Broome Streets

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 ORCHARD STREET

90 VACANT
4"
53'-43

34'

BROOME STREET
PROPOSED CONDITIONS

DUDLEY'S
DUDLEY'S DELI

DRAFT
88
86

IRVING FARM
CASA MEZCAL
85
STICKY RICE
84 ARTIFACT GALLERY
ANN CHOI
1"
170'-22
80 CHRISTIE SHIN
ramp
78 MOO SHOES
ROASTING PLANT 83
SPUR TREE
76

62'-6"
H OPTICS
CAFE KATJA 81
NORMAN'S CAY

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BY ROBERT JAMES
 PARTNER/ BUSINESS CONTEXT
Dudley’s Café Katja
• Seating on Broome and Orchard • Seating on Orchard
• Relocate existing bike corral

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 HOW IT WORKS
• Application based
• Community Board approved
• Typically installed along the parking lane
• Varying design types
• Alleviate illegal bike parking on street signs,
fences, and trees
• Provide higher capacity bike parking where
demand cannot be met in sidewalk space
• Seating is seasonal, March until December
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 STREET SEAT – BIKE CORRAL HYBRID
• 8 feet wide
• Use of epoxy gravel & other
standard DOT elements
• Visually permeable edges
• Some vertical elements
• Moveable furniture
• Requires ramp for access

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 SAFETY

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 OPERATION
• All seating open to public
• No alcohol or smoking allowed
• No commercial activity (e.g., waiter service)
• Moveable furniture closed or
removed & stored by partner
• Report derelict bikes
• Partner responsible for
maintenance via an
agreement with DOT
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 BENEFITS
• More active street life
• Space of one parked car
utilized by 100 people in a day
• Greenery and seating, open
views

Economics
• Sales up 10–15%

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2017 STREET SEAT INSTALLATIONS

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2017 BIKE CORRAL INSTALLATIONS

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 THANK YOU!
Questions?

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