Community Corner

Is Parking Your Bike a Problem in Brookline?

By Bret Silverberg

Many people who choose to ride bicycles instead of drive cars used to feel they were at an advantage when it came to finding parking in Boston. The Boston Globe reports that this may no longer be the case.

According to the report, it’s becoming just as hard to find a place to park a bike as it is to park a car in the city.

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The popularity of Hubway, Boston’s bike share system, has soared since its 2011 inception and Mayor Thomas Menino and the Brookline Board of Selectmen have endeavored to make the Boston area as bicycle friendly as possible over the course of the past several years.

Is this a problem for you in Brookline? Where is it particularly difficult to find bike parking in this neighborhood? Leave your opinion in the comments.

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