Monday Properties decided to use Bike To Work Day to share their bike-friendly policy

[consularrider]

The restrictions on bikes at our Monday owned property have nothing to do with Monday.

Some of those elevators at WJLA are kind of small (but bigger than Metro elevators) and that escalator in the atrium is narrow. Of course that’s also a property with back ADA access at the main entrance (no automatic or button activated door).

[Brent]

Who is responsible for those restrictions? I work in a Vornado owned building in Crystal City, with even smaller elevators, and they don’t have any restrictions.

Also, the tenant rules and procedures guide actually says “No bicycles…of any kind shall be brought into or kept in or about a tenant’s premises or in the Building.” (http://www.1000wilsonblvd.info/pdf/GeneralRulesandRegulations.pdf). After a quick google, it looks like this same restriction is found on other Monday-owned buildings in the area.

[Tim Kelley]

Things wouldn’t go so well if Monday enforced those rules at our offices at 1501 Wilson…

[Bill Hole]

These are common restrictions. Many buildings restrict bikes to the freight elevator. I can see the sense of that – people get nervous about standing next to a dirty, greasy commuting bike (that describes my bike, anyway), the management doesn’t want their nice elevators to get marred by our tires, and more. I don’t have a problem with this as long as the freight elevator is easily accessible.

[Brent]

@Tim Kelley 52592 wrote:

Things wouldn’t go so well if Monday enforced those rules at our offices at 1501 Wilson…

It’s one of the rules there, too: http://1501wilsonblvd.info/main.cfm?pg=coverview&pgnum=2&sid=pprocedures&pid=rregulations

[Brent]

@Bill Hole 52593 wrote:

I don’t have a problem with this as long as the freight elevator is easily accessible.

I think that’s a big part of the concern here. My female friend that works in the 1100 building doesn’t feel safe accessing the freight elevator there by herself, or using the bike storage area.

[consularrider]

@Bill Hole 52593 wrote:

These are common restrictions. Many buildings restrict bikes to the freight elevator. I can see the sense of that – people get nervous about standing next to a dirty, greasy commuting bike (that describes my bike, anyway), the management doesn’t want their nice elevators to get marred by our tires, and more. I don’t have a problem with this as long as the freight elevator is easily accessible.

One amusing thing about this is that we have a bank of six elevators, one of which is the freight elevator. All that is “freight” about it is that it has a steel floor and they have hung padding on the walls of the cabin. Not that it matters since no bikes are allowed in the build and we park them in the garage quite close to the door and we have armed security to boot.

[Tim Kelley]

@Brent 52594 wrote:

It’s one of the rules there, too: http://1501wilsonblvd.info/main.cfm?pg=coverview&pgnum=2&sid=pprocedures&pid=rregulations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshkO8HqQ10

[Terpfan]

After hours, our garage doors close and so you have to take the elevator. I have tried accessing the freight elevator to no avail from our garage. So the one security person said to please use it next time. I said, how and from where. They said, well I don’t know. I said when they know and I know, I would be more than happy to. Since then, no complaints. But the regular elevator from garage is rarely used after 7pm.

[Honeybadger6]

@Brent 52596 wrote:

I think that’s a big part of the concern here. My female friend that works in the 1100 building doesn’t feel safe accessing the freight elevator there by herself, or using the bike storage area.

If your friend is nervous about using the freight elevator and/or storage area because she doesn’t feel comfortable, she should definitely work with her HR department and/or whoever in her office liaises with the building’s facilities department. I had a similar concern about our shower situation but a few polite, productive conversations got things remedied. I do suggest she come with a few ideas on how to make things safer/more comfortable. I found it was much easier to say, “This makes me uncomfortable, but this quick, easy, inexpensive fix would really help!” rather than saying, “This doesn’t work for me.”

[jabberwocky]

I honestly think its standard boilerplate for office buildings, and actual enforcement varies wildly. I know bikes weren’t allowed in the building at all according to the rules at the place I used to work in Tysons (office space run by a large company that held many buildings in the Tysons area), but the on-site people knew me and didn’t care if I brought it up the elevators and into my office. I was always respectful (if an elevator was full, I didn’t cram into it with my dirty bike, I didn’t bang my tires or bars on walls, etc).

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