Collect citizen data on missing bike parking

[katoss]

I think directly asking cyclists to report frustrating bike parking situations could be a promising direction to follow.

There is an app called "Dans Ma Rue" ("In my street"), developed by City of Paris, where people can report anomalies with a geotag, a category (like "trash on the street" etc), photo, and description.

I think something similar (or even exactly that, but with new categories for cycling issues) could work well for our purpose.

We could ask Mélanie about this idea, to see if something like this already exists, or if we could get in touch with the developers of Dans Ma Rue etc.

If anyone else is interested in this direction, feel free to comment!

[operte]

This reminds me of something that @ryanrakusin proposed during the start-up workshop: to let bikers vote where they think parking spots are most necessary!
From what you describe it sounds like the city already has quite a nice platform to implement this :)

[Liyubov]

putting links here which Melanie proposed https://barometre.parlons-velo.fr/2021/carte/#13.77/48.86208/2.33858

[operte]

The map of requests for bike parking is really interesting. It looks like there's a lot of concentration around intersections. Is it because these are also where metro or train stations are located?

[katoss]

I find it really interesting, too. The points of concentrations seem to be around big metro stations, and train stations. It is also interesting to see that at Châtelet and République, the cluster is bigger/spread wider -- I think this is because especially at these stations, the metro entrances are also spread this wide.

Wondering how we can make use of this information. So maybe public transport entrances are one of the big factors to consider when calculating demand. here are some more results of the survey: https://barometre.parlons-velo.fr/2021/palmares/#11.18/48.8589/2.2789 (click on "en route" and then on paris)

[katoss]

A note/update from the meeting with city of paris:

• It is not planned to change the scope of Dans Ma Rue to include bike infrastructure issues
• They are preparing a survey at the moment on bike parking, results will be available at the end of the year

[katoss]

Closed because we won't continue working on this direction in the scope of our project.