I’ve been meaning to get back to this topic. The end of school always throws my life into chaos. The Harrison shops added a decent serpentine rack to the parking garage. I don’t think many people know about it yet so it’s good to get the word out. I’ve got real mixed feelings about it, though. On the one hand it’s a substantial increase in parking and it’s covered. On the other hand, this area is hard to get to and actually rather dangerous to get to via bike. For those not familiar, the parking garage entrance/exit features a blind hill and a blind intersection (the latter is helped a bit by a mirror). You can avoid the hill by going beyond the garage entrance to a service lane, but a biker still faces riding into the blind intersection. Cars sometimes rocket out of the garage. I don’t have a problem going there but I won’t let my kids do it. As far as I know there is not another way to get to that garage via bike, i.e., you can’t go the north side of the complex and then come down the east side of the building. You can only reach the garage by going to the southside and then coming around to the eastside.
So I definitely applaud the garage rack. It’s a definite improvement but may not get used all that much. A bigger rack in the front would be a big improvement.
Of course, now that Kroger took over Harris Teeter, the traffic situation in Harrison shops may eventually improve substantially.
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