Austin to get funky bike racks?
If you wish Austin had funky bike-racks like the David Byrne designs going up in New York, you may just get your wish. The Downtown Austin Alliance has a call out for “unique, durable artwork to serve as bike racks” along Congress Ave. downtown. It’s too bad there isn’t a permalink for that announcement, but if you’re a designer, you can download a .pdf of the call here.
Perhaps this is an opportunity for BikeSnobNYC’s dream of a pirate bike rack to become reality, although I imagine the winners will be more predictable Austin motifs like guitars, bats, or pot leaves.
[...] Downtown Austin Alliance has announced the winners of its bicycle rack competition. None of the winners were what I expected, steel tubes bent into kitschy shapes. Instead, the [...]