This would be like a parking meter, sort of. Kids would put money in a meter/bike rack (a different amount of money for different amounts of time). This would provide bike locks to kids who didnt have them. The locks would be connected to the bike rack so nobody could take them. The way this would work is you put your quarters in and it gives you a combination for the lock. Of course the combination would need to change every time it is used. This would be done somehow by computer or machine. Once your time runs out the lock unlocks itself. If you finish early you use your combo to open it.
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Although parking meters have probably discouraged much automobile traffic in urban centers which is laudable, the concept of making bicycle riders pay to park would be a move towards discouraging bicycles which would no doubt be seized upon by municipal bureaucracy as another source of tax income to the general detriment of bicycles. It is so simple for people to carry personal locks with them that the alternative of encouraging more taxes is extremely unattractive to me.
I like anything that means I don't have to carry a lock. You might combine this with one of mine!.
sand they are not paying to park they are paying to lock they can park anywhere they want
It's a nice thought, but once the municipality gets the idea they can charge for parking bikes I doubt free parking will persist.
Do these need to be timed? So long as the bike is locked, the owner is deprived of its use. And instead of a combo, why not a key of some sort? I wouldn't trust myself with a random combination, and either one could be defeated with enough patience. At the least, the keys could be designed in some ingenious way.
I also wonder how liability plays into this once the locks are eventually breached.
Kids are not going to remember the combination and they are going to destroy the lock to get their bike back.
junk they would get a card with the combo on it and the lo9t would release when a time period is up