Bike parking rack at The Galleria Mall at Dufferin and Dupont. This is by the North entrance on Dupont.
Please use provided bike racks. All others will be removed at owner's risk.
Would be nice if the rack wasn't upside-down in the snowbank. Should upgrade to something better than a wheel-bender too.
Comments
Joe LaFortune (not verified)
Galleria Mall
Sat, 12/29/2007 - 23:27Curious that you posted this. Galleria Mall is close to where I live and I visit there often. I wrote to Mall Management about two months ago (never received a reply) complaining that they offer an incredibly vast parking lot (for such a crappy little mall), but only provide bike parking on the east and north sides using ancient, ineffective and unsecured racks that only allow cyclists to attach their front wheel to. The oddest rack in the world is afixed to the south entrance and is never used because it requires cyclists to stand their bike up on its rear wheel or hang it from the wall mounted (and flimsy-looking) rack. And then, with no proper bike parking facilities on site, they have the nerve to demand we use them or have our bicycles stolen by mall management. Fortunately, Mall management doesn't actually give a damn about the mall, so our bikes are likely safe being locked to the railings.
vic
Galleria
Mon, 12/31/2007 - 08:54I also saw those stand-up racks at the Galleria on the same day I took this photo. The thing that made them even more annoying was they they're on a wall above a sidewalk next to parked cars. If you parked bikes in there, it would be difficult to walk through.
I doubt they'll do much to fix any bike parking situation there. I think that mall is gonna be redeveloped sometime soon anyway. It's a crappy place, but it does seem to be a sort of community centre for alot of the older people around here.