Chicago’s bicycle advocacy group, Active Transportation Alliance, recently published an article reminding planners and developers that secure and well-designed bike storage facilities in residential buildings can encourage many more people to choose the bike as their preferred mode of transportation. 

As Jason Jenkins, Dero’s sales rep in Chicago, says in the post, “Lots of people are not comfortable with storing their bikes for long periods of time outside. If you want people to ride their bikes regularly, especially as their main form of transportation, you’ve got to provide them with a safe place to store that bike at the beginning and end of their trip. If every time someone wants to ride their bike and the first thing they’ve got to do is wrestle it down off a sketchy two-tiered bike rack that might fall, that’s going to be a hassle. You’re already setting up disincentives right at the beginning of getting people to ride bikes.”

Be sure to read the full article on the Active Transportation Alliance website, and see some photos of the great new bike room at 808 N Wells in Downtown Chicago.