McDonald’s Cycle Center is an indoor bike station in the Loop community area of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The bike station, which serves bicycle commuters and utility cyclists, provides lockers, showers, a snack bar with outdoor summer seating, bike repair, bike rental and 300 bicycle parking spaces as of 2004. It also accommodates runners and inline skaters, and provides space for a Chicago Police Department Bike Patrol Group.
About McDonald’s Cycle Center in brief
McDonald’s Cycle Center is an indoor bike station in the northeast corner of Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. Since June 2006, it has been sponsored by McDonald’s and several other partners, including city departments and bicycle advocacy organizations. The bike station, which serves bicycle commuters and utility cyclists, provides lockers, showers, a snack bar with outdoor summer seating, bike repair, bike rental and 300 bicycle parking spaces as of 2004. It also accommodates runners and inline skaters, and provides space for a Chicago Police Department Bike Patrol Group. The Cycle Center was completed in June 2004 and the official opening occurred on July 19, 2004, the Monday following the Millennium Park’s grand opening gala. According to 2007 data released in 2008, Millennium Park trailed only Navy Pier as a Chicago tourist attraction. The station was part of Mayor Daley’s vision of Chicago as the most bicycle-friendly city in the United States. Although bicycle centers are common in Europe, Long Beach, California is credited with pioneering commuter-biking centers offering valet parking, parking, repair services and repair services. The cycle center is on the fifth and sixth floors of the Chicago Department of Transportation’s Millennium Park parking garage. It was originally planned to occupy 10,000 square feet and cost USD 2 million, but when completed, the Cycle Centre was 16,448 square feet and located on a larger exterior plaza. The final two-floor design cost USD 3.2 million, and a federal grant from the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration for projects that lessen traffic congestion and improve air quality funded its construction.
It has been described as exemplary, impressive, unique and ground-breaking. Environmentalists, urban planners and cycling enthusiasts around the world have expressed interest in the Cycle Center, and want to emulate what they see as a success story in urban planning and transit-oriented development. The Millennium Park bicycle center was designed by David Steele of the architectural firm Muller & Muller, which won a USD 120,000 contract to design the station by Memorial Day 2004, and commenced the design in August 2003. It is located in the northwest corner of Grant Park, which had been Illinois Central rail yards and parking lots until 1997, when it was made available for development by the city as Millennium Park. In 1998 Illinois Supreme Court v. Wayne—a 1998 Supreme Court ruling that bikes are not “permitted” on public roads, meaning that local governments have a limited responsibility to keep cyclists safe and safe from lawsuits unless the street has been clearly marked as a bike-injury route. The city has since followed suit in other cities, such as Denver, and, in California, Los Angeles, Berkeley,. Long Beach and Palo Alto. The cycle station is part of a reversal of the Boubouboub v Wayne decision, which ruled that cyclists are not immune from lawsuits, unless the city has clearly marked the street as a bicycle route.
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