{"id":419,"date":"2008-09-19T00:16:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T04:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2008-09-19T00:16:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T04:16:42","slug":"mbta-bike-racks-at-alewife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/mbta-bike-racks-at-alewife\/","title":{"rendered":"MBTA Bike Racks at Alewife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The T blew up a few bike racks at Alewife over the summer. There has been construction activity at the old locations. There have been a lot of bikes locked to railings with the remaining bike racks overflowing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/card.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-420\" title=\"card\" src=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/card-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/card-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/card.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today I rolled up to the remaining bike racks and a couple security guards were passing out pamphlets that advised me not to get my bike stolen.  More interesting, they handed me a &#8220;Bike CharlieCard&#8221; that I can use to open the gates at the two new bike cages.  The MBTA also had a promo on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbta.com\/about_the_mbta\/news_events\/?id=15741&amp;month=&amp;year=\">new bike cages today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have a few questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will this really help prevent bike theft?  They handed me a card, no questions asked, and it opened the door for me.  Can&#8217;t a thief just apply for a key to the castle?  It is a theft deterrent, but will it actually deter anyone?  I&#8217;m not sure.<\/li>\n<li>Maintenance.  The T simply sucks at it.  They don&#8217;t have anything that doesn&#8217;t break down.  Trains, turnstiles, parking lot gates, ticket dispensers, signals, tracks, bridges, speakers, coin dispensers, buses, dollar-bill readers, pavement, batteries, rechargers, refuellers, radios, electronic signage, locks, security systems, etc.  If the T has it, it breaks.  Let&#8217;s see if this cage is still intact and functional in 6 months or 6 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the moment I&#8217;m guardedly optimistic.  Perhaps the T got this one right?<a href=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_0172.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-421 aligncenter\" title=\"img_0172\" src=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_0172-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_0172-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_0172.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The T blew up a few bike racks at Alewife over the summer. There has been construction activity at the old locations. There have been a lot of bikes locked to railings with the remaining bike racks overflowing. Today I rolled up to the remaining bike racks and a couple security guards were passing out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mbta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}