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Re:Has Japan designed the world's best bike shed? by patio11 on Friday November 06, 2009 @01:42AM (#925595)
This is an adaptation which makes a lot of sense in a few areas in Japan because footprint is so expensive that volume is cheap by comparison.

In my home town, it is much more economical to just buy three giant expanses of land by the train station (even though it is the most pricey real estate in town) and let people park their bikes there.

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Re:Has Japan designed the world's best bike shed? by tomjen2 on Friday November 06, 2009 @02:08AM (#925620)
I don't know your home town, but is the train station the only place a lot of people would want to store their bikes?

Because at least where I live the center of the city is packed with bikes during the warm part of the year and some of the places have four times as many bikes as there are spaces in the bike rack.

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