On Beacon Hill, the passive-aggressive do it old school

At least one rack installed in the brick walks of Beacon HIll was easily dislodged and made more or less useless. Somewhere along the way something better needs to be done.

I suggest you obtain proper data next time.

Another brilliant observation. How many used cars are for sale on Craigslist, Markk? Would that indicate, do you think, a weaker market for cars?

At moments like these, it seems more indicative of your biases (as in trying to make bikes looks not in demand to make bikes look bad) than fair assessment. There are three things I can counter-argue.

1. 2400 without context means nothing. Like commentator above me, what if we can look up 2400 cars or 2400 ipads? Does it mean they are not in demand? Without context of market and especially turnover, listing 2400 doesn't indicate market demand.

2. The say argument of saying people don't want to lower their prices is can also be used that maybe the demand is there. Market price theory states that if demand is low enough, eventually the seller will either lower their price or take it off the market completely. But it is still being listed at said price, while maybe not going off the self on the first minute demand, but it seems enough that patience did not outstrip listing price. So which theory seems more likely?

3. Reports of stealing. People tend to steal stuff that is of some value to sell (or keep). We all heard plenty of reports of iPads, iPhone, high-end Android, and bicycles. All roughly sell in the same area (and similar demographic and location). If the bike market is that weak, then we wouldn't hear bikes being stolen as we hear as Apple products.

Also to poke a hole in your logic too. You said, the time it takes to go home, type into a type writer, and come back to tape the note but still there is indicative of a weak bike market as it is not stolen by then. I would say it would take 4 hours at most (15 minutes at least). Most stealing of bikes tend to happen more overnight and on low-traffic areas. Just because it is not stolen in 4 hours (and also have to think about location, stealers to my eperience probably focus more around campuses for example), doesn't mean there's no demand. Plenty of other expensive items (as I already compared, ipads.. etc...) have been left unattended have not get stolen, just if you do long enough times or leave it long enough, someone's going to steal it.

It's pretty insane to see a street light and a Green Line catenary pole two feet away from eachother, and then a post for a bus stop sign placed in between them. Combine them! Or at least put the bus sign on the catenary pole -- both are MBTA property. And on top of that, mount streetlights onto buildings when possible/feasible -- it is done elsewhere.

From what I understand based on the run-up to getting a street rack on my block, there are a lot of legalities preventing the city from cutting your lock and seizing personal property even if it is a bicycle that is "an eyesore" (my neighbor's words, not mine).

If the rule is three feet clear, then pretty much anywhere on the interior streets of Beacon Hill, then locking a bike on the sidewalk side of a tree guard or light pole is going to be in violation.

Irrespective of the law, there's already only about 3 feet of clearance between the tree guards and the fronts of the houses; locking a bike there is just plain obnoxious, and using it for permanent storage of a bike that is never used, doubly so.