What Bike Parking Facilities Do You Want at Arl Metro Stations?

Henry- it would be great to have metro bike parking options that are 1) on budget; 2) on schedule; and 3) constructed by contractors with an adequate quality controls program, unlike a current bike parking facility that has yet to complete for years with no end in sight… and is the topic of another thread.

@SarahBee 197459 wrote:

Henry- it would be great to have metro bike parking options that are 1) on budget; 2) on schedule; and 3) constructed by contractors with an adequate quality controls program, unlike a current bike parking facility that has yet to complete for years with no end in sight… and is the topic of another thread.

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Not directly a WMATA project, but could be useful for Metro users as well as mall visitors and office workers.
There is no reason the Ballston parking garage cannot have significantly better and more bike parking than it does. Arlington County owns the garage, making it much more straightforward to implement than a project with multiple stakeholders. I seem to recall this being a topic of discussion at the BAC meetings about 4-5 years ago that subsequently fizzled out.

OK, since I work at the Pentagon or Crystal City, let me add another suggestion: The Pentagon transit center really, really needs a Capital Bikeshare station there. Make it a double-wide station because business would boom. I know this is an old idea, and the blame is usually placed on some agency at the Pentagon, and it gets extra weight just because they think they’re special. I know it’s not a security issue, and I hope that’s not the reason they give because it’s hard for civilians to argue against that and sometimes they just throw that out there to stifle the conversation. There is a lot of pedestrian traffic around the transit center (when I ride my bike there to catch a bus home, I walk it when I get close), and a lot of car and bus traffic, but with just a little planning, and a well-placed bike lane to get the bikes in and out of the area, it would work spectacularly, beyond all expectations. I’d probably locate the station near the corridor 2 entrance where there are already bike racks, and designate one of the parking lot lanes special for bikes to get to Pentagon City, but that’s just me thinking about it for 2 minutes. Add another station on the north side in the small parking lot by the wooden bridge over the pond near the path, and it’d be convenient to the trail network and DC, and close to the Pentagon Athletic Center for people to shower.