Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Friday, September 23, 2022

Electric scooter station for Spin

Maybe I don't get out enough, but I haven't seen a scooter station comparable to a bicycle sharing station.  This is on the University of Utah campus, by their bike shop.

The University of Utah has a set of digital ad kiosks across the campus.  The one pictured is on 500 South, next to the Rice-Eccles Football Stadium, and not too far from the University TRAX light rail station.

They are used to promote the Utah Transit Agency (bus, light rail, railroad commuter).  And I have seen ads for Spin on them.  But I haven't yet seen ads for biking.  

I don't know if they promoted the University Bike Week in ads on the system.

This Spin ad is somewhat subtle, not promoting electric scooters per se, but wearing helmets, which is why I noticed it. 

In any case, as I suggested in #10 in this entry ("PL #5: Creating a Silver Spring "Sustainable Mobility District" | Part 3: Program items 10-18"), "Create a digital community and transit information network for Silver Spring, employing kiosks and mobile applications" such community digital ad systems can be leveraged to promote community organizations and events, sustainable mobility, etc.

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