Kensington

The new giant Kensington sign is really nice! Just look at that bike parking! And it looks like a big bike chain. It's really useful.

Locking to poles on Augusta
I don't want to complain all the time, but I thought it would useful to point out the drawbacks to putting most of the bike parking on the edge of the market. There are still lots of people (myself included) who don't want to park on the outskirts and then walk in (particularly when cars can still park right in front of the stores). Thus people still end of locking to any available pole.

Bike parked on Kensington, near St. Andrew

When people go shopping on the south east end of Kensington they don't really want to have to walk all that way from the top of Augusta when they can just bike down and free-lock their bike in front of the stores.

I truly do applaud the work the city has done here, a very nice sign. I hope what comes next is a bike rack colonizing one of those car parking spots. It's a shame that even in the heart of heaviest bike and pedestrian traffic in city the infrastructure is still poor.

The Essence of Life. Late Sunday afternoon in Kensington Market.