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From YouTube: Power2 Live Green -- Plaza Midwood Bike Corral
Description
Plaza Midwood is a diverse urban neighborhood on Charlotte NC's east side. The community benefits from engaged citizens who collaborate to improve the community through arts, environment, education, entertainment, safety and public service. With a growing cyclist community, Plaza Midwood Neighborhood Association received a Power2 Live Green grant to promote alternative transportation including custom designed bike racks, Charlotte's 1st bike repair stand and an upcycled garden-style bike corral.
A
A
Viking
is
really
important
to
this
neighborhood,
because
a
lot
of
people
actually
use
it
for
their
predominant,
only
mode
of
transportation.
It's
it's
a
really
great
way
to
bring
the
community
together,
not
only
our
drivers,
a
little
bit
more
friendly
to
people
on
their
bicycles,
but
we
also
have
a
installed
permanent
bicycle
repair,
stand,
which
is
amazing
and
I,
see
people
using
it
all
the
time
whether
they're
just
pumping
up
the
tires
or
they're
doing
some
other
maintenance
on
it.
Bicycling.
B
Is
important
because
it
does
a
number
of
things:
it
reduces
traffic
congestion,
it
gets
people,
it
slows
people
down,
so
they
can
appreciate
the
surroundings,
things
that
are
going
on
around
them.
If
you
bike
into
a
neighborhood,
if
you
bike
down
a
street,
you
have
time
to
wave
at
your
neighbor,
see
something
neat.
That's
happening
that
you
would
have
ordinarily
just
gone
right
past.
We.
C
A
This
neighborhood
there
are
a
lot
of
people
that
bike
and
the
bike
racks
fill
up
quickly.
Bike
corral
is
a
lot
larger
and
centrally
located
within
the
major
shopping
area
of
the
neighborhood
bike.
Corral
is
a
bicycle.
Securing
location
that
takes
up
the
space
of
one
car
parking
space
it
can
hold
hours
in
particular,
will
hold
12,
bicycles,
I,
think
one.
D
Thing
about
the
bike,
racks
and
Plaza
Midwood,
as
they
are
spaced
out
kind
of
far
and
I
think
they
might
have
23
bike
spots
tops.
So
if
you
are
going
to
have
families
which
there
are
families
around
biking,
then
a
bike
Krell
really
offers
multiple
spots
for
people
to
walk
up
their
bike
all
at
once.
Well,.
C
B
All
kind
of
pitched
in
our
our
two
cents,
one
of
the
things
we
obviously
wanted
to
keep
costs
down
and
there's
a
is
a
local
scrapyard
in
town
or
in
noda,
held
southern
resources,
and
they
have
a
lot
of
interesting
scraps.
So
we
we
stopped
by
there
to
kind
of
see
what
was
available
and
we
found
we
found
these
things
that
looked
like
they
might
be
flowers,
your
stocks.
They
found
these
there
and
we
thought
okay.
E
Most
of
my
design
background
has
been
in
the
realm
of
web
design
and
print
design.
So
when
I
design
something
most
of
the
time,
it's
either
you
looking
at
it
on
screen.
Are
you
looking
at
on
paper?
This
has
been
kind
of
a
new
experience
for
me
to
see
something.
I
design
be
be
rendered
in
real
life
when
I
put
the
design
together,
I
wasn't
sure
it
was
gonna
work
entirely
because
it
was
kind
of
new
to
me,
but
luckily
we
got.
A
B
Fun
to
weld
stuff
together,
you
know
it's
fun
to
have
an
excuse
to
do
that
and
then,
at
the
end
of
the
day,
we
also
have
something
to
show
for
it.
We
have
Pam
Murray
who
saw
that
there
was
a
need
for
bicycle
racks
in
the
area
and
they
weren't
there.
You
know
we
have
some
that
have
gone
up,
but
it's
definitely
a
need
there,
a
lot
of
bicyclists
in
town.
B
You
know
she
started
a
ride
a
couple
months
ago
that
has
gone
from
one
person
riding
to
70
people
riding
every
week
on
bicycles,
and
so
you
have
70
people
meeting
at
this
intersection,
and
you
know
there's
a
bike
rack
there.
But
by
having
space
to
contain
more
bicycles,
you
encourage
more
people
to
ride
it's
good
for
the
business
in
the
area
and
it's
good
for
the
community
and
kind
of
makes
it
like
I
said
before
it
makes
it
a
happier
place
to
live.
We.
C
A
C
B
You
have
a
good
team
of
people
who
are
willing
to
work
to
get
something
done
because
they
enjoy
it
and
they
think
it's
fun
and
they
want
to
see
it
happen.
Make
it
happen,
then
you
can
go
from
start
to
finish
in
a
short
period
of
time
and
it
might
not
be
the
most
amazing
thing,
but
you're
going
to
have
something.
That's
cool
and
it's
going
to
be
done
quickly.
It's
going
to
be
it's
going
to
be
enjoyed
by
people.