From the Telegraph Journal 12-11-08 – excerpt from Bruce Bartlett article:
“Also on Wednesday, the Saint John Parking Commission unveiled plans to make biking to work a more attractive proposition.
There are approximately 68 people who regularly cycle to work in the uptown, said Liz DeLuisa of Hardy Stevenson & Associates, which prepared the plan, for the city.
Next year the parking commission will carry out the plan, installing racks for 29 bikes and lockers for 14. Racks will be available on a first-come, first-served basis, but the lockers will be rented out for about $6 per month, said Craig Campbell, of the city’s planning department.
“Phase two would then stretch to build bike parking at the Carleton garage, Peel Plaza green space and then identify some other key areas within the uptown,” DeLuisa said. “If all of this is developed, we will have 106 bike spaces by 2013.”
The cycling participation rate in Saint John, at 0.3 per cent, is below the national average of 1.4 per cent. But geography does have an impact because most people who cycle to work live within a five-kilometres radius of their job, she said.
Some of the bike lockers will be built next to the Canada Games Aquatic Centre, which will offer an early bird special for $30 per month, allowing cyclists to shower and change before going to work, Campbell said.”
