With a goal of having one to two per neighborhood, the department will install these bike facilities at three locations starting next week.

Taking the place of one to two motor vehicle parking spaces, on-street bike parking will be filled with bicycle racks and surrounded by a raised curb.

Bicyclists can enter the parking area from the sidewalk and each car-sized space will accommodate up to eight bikes.

By mid February the new bike facilities will be installed:

¡ñ Mid block of Broadway E between E Harrison Street and E Republican Street (by Broadway Market)

¡ñ At the corner of 12th Avenue and E Spring Street (by Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Caf¨¦ Presse)

¡ñ At the corner of Woodlawn Avenue NE and NE 70th Street (by the Greenlake Condominium)

SDOT is planning additional on-street bicycle parking locations for 2009.

For more information or to request bicycle parking in a neighborhood, please contact the Seattle Department of Transportation at (206) 684-7583 or bikeracks@seattle.gov.