Damn, Japan slays us again with another eco-slap to the back of the head. Giken's Eco Cycle is a practical solution to encourage more people to ride bicycles and no more lugging around those heavy kryptonite locks. The Eco Cycle underground bike parking garage is just to dope for words. Giken says they are confident about the structure's ability to handle potential structural damage which is appropriate for their area of the world, the cylinder's wall structure (only about 23 ft. in diameter) is also designed to handle strong earthquakes.
According to Giken's website, Eco-parks are made with prefabricated structural cylinder piles that are 'pressed-in' to the ground with large piling machines that minimize vibration and noise. It takes fifty working days to build the structure from start to finish. Giken is one of the leading construction businesses using this technolgy and has been used before to build tidal/flood defense systems.
To get started just find an open hub and place the wheels of your bicycle on the aluminum runway. Then, in an adjacent slot, you have to swipe your membership card, for which you pay a monthly fee about $30 (in Yen) for a monthly ticket and students pay half that amount including 24 hr access to get your bike whenever you'd like. Once the machine IDs your account, the doors of the garage open, and a locking base comes out in order to dock the bike. Then – shazaam! Your bike is quickly sucked into the hub and the doors close.
In 10-25 seconds, your bike has descended into the deep machinery underground. Don't stress, your ride is in good mechanical hands. The locking base is switched underground and suspended in place in its own railway. Each garage includes 144 railways for bikes, which must abide by a height, tire size (at 28-inches) and certain length.
Just in case your car or bike gets stuck there will be a cubbyhole that allows a designated engineer to go under and fix it.
All I have to say is "where my Bloomberg at?" Easy, Eco Hustler
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