Bike Parking on Main Street? YES!

Brattleboro, let’s make bike parking on Main Street! Do you know about Parklets? Think mini-park.  More defined? They are a tactical urbanism approach to creating the public spaces our community need.

Two years ago architect Ward Joyce designed, built and installed a beautiful bike parking Parklet in Montpelier and now there are 6 Parklets going in around Montpelier this summer. Ward has agreed to sell us this parklet to seed our own parklet hopes and dreams for Brattleboro. 


This beautiful bike parking parklet* can be ours and can be plunked down on Main Street in a parking spot. Instantaneously a car parking spot will transform to a bike parking spot. Instantaneously a spot that fits 1 car will fit at least 6-10 bikes! 

This is where you come in: we need to raise $3,000 to buy the parklet from our friends in Montpelier, outfit it with new signs and make sure it is fitting the maximum amount of bikes! We have already secured a $1,000 from the Town of Brattleboro. $2,000 left to go!

In a recent study of our parking in downtown one of the greatest challenges for parking in downtown was named as the need for more bicycle infrastructure and/or alternative transportation options. This is part of our solution.

Help us fundraise to get this parklet on Main Street and continue to liven up our downtown with cool public features.

“There’s something that’s quite empowering about parking your bicycle on the asphalt. It’s a real equalizer,” he said. “It feels like … when I’m riding my bicycle or I’m driving my car, my community and my city respects me equally.” - Greg Raisman, Portland Department of Transportation 

Let's do this together!

Thank you sincerely from the organizers at:

VBike, Downtown Brattleboro Alliance, Brattleboro Coalition for Active Transportation (BCAT) and Tiny House Fest Vermont

* park·letˈ(pärklət / noun) - a small seating area or green space created as a public amenity on or alongside a sidewalk, especially in a former roadside parking space. "The parklet features planters full of tall shrubs that shield visitors from traffic".