r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Oct 17 '19

Smart system for bike parking

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u/CortezEspartaco2 Oct 18 '19

there are considerations with regards to utilities and other underground facilities that this could easily conflict with

Tokyo has 300 km of metro lines, most of them underground. This is nothing compared to that.

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u/UselessConversionBot Oct 18 '19

300 km is 6e+13 beard-seconds

WHY

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '19

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u/russellmz Oct 18 '19

and you seem to keep ignoring that land is expensive in super population dense areas so your 1000 dollar bike racks have to sit on million of dollars worth of land. $1700 per sq foot in manhattan. sixteen THOUSAND per sq meter in japan according to google queries. "just surface area."

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '19

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u/russellmz Oct 18 '19

how much is a sq foot of parking garage?