So our first state has plans drawn up to build a bike parking facility instead of having your regular municipal lot for cars. It's cool because:
Less space will be used compared to the parking lot
It encourages people to get active and cycle to work as they'll have a place to park their bikes
It will create an urban green space aka a park in the city
One think I found odd though was that the parking lot was only one level. I feel like in cities there are multilevel parking garages to get the most out of the base space they have. Also, how use full will this be during the brutal northeast winter? I mean Delaware can get snow right? And lots of rain too right? It's not Arizona where it's sunny and dry out 99% of the time. I wouldn't want to bike to work in the rain or snow - I'd want to drive! Actually, I'd never want to ride a bike...flipping over the handle bars of my bike as a kid has traumatized me for life. I'd rather walk than ride a bike!
One last thought - will bike theft go up if they build it? On ABC's What Would You Do?they had different people cutting the chain off the bike. Of course the white guy got away with it, people called the cops on the black guy in the same scenario, and people helped the pretty blond girl steal the bike! Maybe I should try "stealing" a bike and see what happens...
Back in the 1st grade I participated in the school's science fair and did a project about how rainbows are formed. Ever since then I've been obsessed with color, and lots of it! For instance, I like color coding thing, putting objects in ROYGBV order, and back in the day I had to have the biggest Crayola set out there. I think I even used to refer to some colors by their Crayola name...actually I still do that sometimes. Another example of my relationship with color is in my wardrobe. One snowy day back in college my roommates and I assembled a coat rack and put all of our jackets on it. All of theirs were black, and mine were red, yellow, and blue.
So if you haven't figured it out by now I kinda love color and came across this video about Pantone while surfing the net:
It's pretty crazy how many colors Pantone makes. Oddly enough, when coordinating the Tufts University orientation, I had a guy at a silk screening company ask me "what's the Pantone? Gimme that and I'll match it." It was actually really important to get the right color on the t-shirts because Tufts had just changed its word mark making school branding especially important that year, so we had to use the university approved Pantone colors. I understand why we had to be so particular with the printing more today than I did back then. Think about it - if one day you're watching tv and a the Jolly Green Giant comes on to sell you peas, and he's not the right shade of green you're going to be like "huh?". There's a lot of color recognition out there so it's important for a brand to keep it consistent overtime. Otherwise the consumer might start scratching his head in confusion. Ah! -- and in case you were wondering, my favorite Pantone color is 16-4427-TCX. Well favorite out of the hundred i looked at, I didn't have time to go through 5,000+ colors!
