This is a video demonstrating how to park a bicycle on a "Bike Tree" rack.
You use a smart card to call down a hook. The computer on the bike tree recognizes legitimate cards, logs , in some fashion, the card that called it down. You hook in one of your bicycle wheels into the hook, and then send the hook back up.
To get your bicycle back down, you use the same smart card, which the computer will verify is the same one that sent the card down and up the last time, and will bring it down for you.
Then you unhook your bicycle, and the hook goes back to its resting place at the top of the tree.
These are pretty slick and would work great at multimodal transit stations. Many transit agencies resist bike boxes, fearing they would be used by transients or terrorists. These seem an attractive option for reluctant transit agencies at train stations and other locations. They appear secure, and could possibly event be made aesthetically attractive. Thanks, Paul Dorn
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