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I love the design of the DC BikeStation but heard that is was majorly expensive for the relatively few number of bikes it can store. Now granted the design should be award winning due to its location between two neoclassical masterpieces but I've heard grumblings about this project being "another example of wasteful liberal government spending" (Yeah, yeah! Go cry me a river).

Anyway, I'd suggest just going the storefront route with most other bikestations or other like facilities. They can be done much cheaper, are just as effective and can be returned to a storefront if the bikestation fails or needs to be relocated.

I love this thing. I think it is really, really great.  

I'd remind you Andy, everyday there are mega projects for cars that cost millions of dollars that could be better spent. Look at the Big Dig for instance, There is nothing wrong with the occasional high profile bike project getting its due cash, though I agree this should not be the norm.

Nice design. One wonders why there isn't existing space inside Union Station that couldn't have been used for a bike station.

Still, the cost is insignificant compared to the unwarranted multi-billion dollar artificially lighted, no-speed rail caves (LIRR's East Side Access to GCT & NJT's Access to the Regions's Core) currently under construction in Manhattan.

The bike parking at Union Station underscores the reality that there is no bike access on Metro trains at peak hours. Amtrak allows no bikes on any of its trains passing through D.C. Union Station. VRE allows bikes on reverse commute, midday trains and the last three peak hour trains in each directions 5 days per week. Bike access on MARC trains is prohibited 5 days per week.

Unfortunately MARC & VRE don't even operate on weekends. That in itself is a serious transit deficit in the D.C. region.

(All train operations in the U.S. permit folding bikes, but folding bikes are an insignificant portion of the bike population.)

Hey! i Would like to bring to street-films attention the current presidential election campaign going on in Colombia! Antanas Mockus and Enrique Peñalosa joined forces and created a political party. Mockus was elected as the candidate for the party and has become a sensation in the country. I believe this could be a point of interest as these two Geniuses changed Bogota Dramatically and we cant imagine what they can do with the Country. In less than a month Mockus has jumped from 9% to 24% in different polls.

The cost of this Bikestation is about the cost of about 2 feet of a freeway on ramp. This is in the center of Washington. It's is about time bikes got the respect of a beautiful facilitly that airports, subways and trains get.

Yeah you can't actually really then take your bike on an Amtrak train from the station to NY except for once a day. Total BS.