I need help please!
Eziz-PGO
Posts: 13 ✭✭
This is the station for bicycles in the town of Parabiago, near Milan, Italy. It has been built since a few months. Above you can see the signs that specify everything that is written in the description. This is the only bike station in town. It has a considerable size. It is accessible because you enter with your health card. It is visible from the street, also thanks to the support photosphere. The place is very safe thanks to the sidewalk and the cycle path that starts right next to them. It pushes people to make a cultural choice aimed at respecting the environment. Niantic has always pushed to explore, to play sports ... safety. This point of interest pushes the game in that direction. For this reason it has a very high cultural value. Every dare is in order and yet it is the second time it is rejected.
I can understand that small and paid stations are refused in large cities like Milan, where there is one for each street, but here it makes no sense.
TRANSLATION OF DESCRIPTION: Station for free bike parking near the Parabiago train station area. Structure created thanks to the European development fund in association with the Lombardy Region and the Municipality. You enter thanks to your personal health card.
SUPPORT INFORMATION: spherical photo: https://picasaweb.google.com/101535745769344596660/6869001844483529681#6869001844171314514 From the support photo you can see that at the bottom there is the station. POI of high social, cultural and environmental value. Safe place.
Was rejected for: does not meet the criteria .. just that.
I understand it even less, when in municipalities nearby, much larger, such stations, without any claw or indication, have been accepted.
Comments
From the guidelines.
"Transit stations
A nod to the transportation industry, which also connects and unites people around the world
Accept transportation hubs (like Grand Central Station), but not every single small transit stop (like a subway station or a bus stop)"
I don't see a transportation hub, I see a glorified bicycle parking space. Sorry.
Please avoid making comparisons to existing stops as many were approved when there were different criteria, and just because something was eligible in the past, does not mean that it's eligible now. Niantic does not want stops removed simply because criteria changes.
That pokestop was accepted a few months ago.
Indeed, Niantic's criteria say nothing for this case.
If we rely on the definition of POI, this surely is. POI: is a specific point location that someone may find useful or interesting. What about the educational and culturale value? This are for sure very high; especially the first.
We are talking about a game that pushes people to explore, walk, ride a bike, make green choices ... and in 2+ years of AMAs Niantic still hasn't said anything about these POIs....
It may look like it connects to a transportation hub, but it is not the transit hub itself. A lot of train stations and interchanges have large carparks. If we are to presume that car parks are eligible points of transportation, then these bicycle cages would also be acceptable. However, they aren't... really.
I get the whole physical exercise concept: people are using their bikes and alighting here to catch a bus or a train, and even a bit of a nod to the transportation industry. It's something I'd like to see as interesting and able to be approved, but unfortunately no.
Just to give some perspective. I ride my bicycle actively around the year in northern Europe. I would find this kind of place useful, but not interesting, nor having high educational or cultural value.
If there was for example a plague or information booth with information how this location is part of wider project to improve local bicycling opportunities or map of the surrounding bicycle routes with tips of nearby locations for visitors, I'd find the place educational and also having higher cultural value.
Now I see just a "Station for free bike parking".
Bycycle rack - not eligable.
Right next to them begins the cycle path that leads from the train station to all parts of the city or even to other cities. Unfortunately it is marked only by a round road sign with a bike on it. The track is also recognizable by the marks on the ground. https://picasaweb.google.com/101535745769344596660/6869001844483529681#6869001844171314514
"The redevelopment of the railway station square - explains the councilor for public works Dario Quieti - is a complex project that is part of a broader vision of the city, starting with the construction of the velostation in via XXIV Maggio and the cycle paths created thanks to to the regional announcement, a circuit that reaches up to the square subject to intervention, as well as a redesigned road network to facilitate direct vehicular passage to the station. The works are also the construction of a series of raised pedestrian crossings to make the road safer given the intense passage of pedestrians and a cycle path that connects the velostation of via XXIV Maggio to the station square. The bicycle parking area currently has 96 free places with video surveillance"
This is all part of a larger project to improve local cycling opportunities and to connect the cycle path that starts from the Parabiago train station to other cycle paths in other cities.
What do you think if i ask the instructions for use and access to the velostation?
Thx you all for help!
Sadly, I don't see instructions faring any better in this case.
The project does sound interesting. Worth asking from the the bureau in charge of project if there are plans for information maps/plagues? If not, request or make a citizen initiative (not sure if correct term) ?