Now that the new downtown bicycle racks have been set up for a few weeks in downtown Peterborough, what are your thoughts on how they look? Are they easy on the eye?

I think the inspiration may have come from the Jeep logo (joking here, but there are similarities), although they aren't as beautiful as the single bicycle racks in Ottawa...

Or as glamourous as this bike rack on St. Clair West in Toronto...

They are still well used in general—and on a Friday night well after all the other cars have gone home to bed.

The feedback has been mixed on Twitter (as you'll see from the sampling below), but add your own comments below.

Progress in @Ptbo_Canada! A parking spot replaced with bicycle parking! #yay twitter.com/jonathan_pinto…
— Jonathan Pinto (@jonathan_pinto) June 24, 2012

I'm super proud of decision makers in @Ptbo_Canada for turning 2 parking spaces in @Ptbo_DBIA over to bikeracks!#bikePTBO~ @MayorBennett
— Danielle Tassie (@Tass73) June 21, 2012

@vanderherberg yes, but it's parking that could have easily been accomodated without losing precious current vehicle parking. & they're ugly
— JefDueck (@JefDueck) June 15, 2012

[Contributed by PtboCanada's Evan Holt]

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