Tuesday, April 22, 2008

japanese bicycle parking tower

like a scene from the matrix in which instead of human beings, bicycles are stored in great towers, the machinery inside this japanese bicycle tower takes your bike and whisks it with incredible speed and efficiency to its assigned parking space. i like the scene towards the end of this video, in which the reporter slides his card through a reader and within twenty two seconds he has his bike - absolutely incredible.
this might be in the the future for cities outside of japan as the practical and aesthetic concerns of storing the increasing number of bikes safely and securely become ever more problematic.

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