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What Banks Have Become, I

In a city where close-to-the-station real estate is at a premium and hundreds of bikes are carted to the 'pound every day for illegal parking, many people consider it OK to dump bikes outside the bank. The logic being that during the day you could be a customer and at night they're shut so their forecourt space is fair game. And anyway this facility doesn't even have permanent staff - simply being a space to house four ATMs - so whose going to argue?

Except that drunken revellers return to the 'burbs and forget to pick up the bike.

Banks have evolved into many things, including parking spaces, and as below, anti-parking spaces.

Writing from Sakura Shinmachi | June 17, 2007 | Permalink