Safe City Parking for Commuter Bikes - Covina, Calif.


	Safe City Parking for Commuter Bikes - Covina, Calif.

nedhamson1

10-28-2009 5:35 PM

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bike commuting, covina, safety bike

nedhamson1 says:

Neat idea and to be tried out in my hometown where cars had been king in cheap gas eras but now has bike riders and access again to commuter rail. Grin - there was commuter rail in the late 1940s and early 1950s that went bust when freeways and 15 cent a galon gas killed them.

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