Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/McDonald's Cycle Center

McDonald&#39;s Cycle Center

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/July 19, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 07:31, 26 June 2014 (UTC)



McDonald's Cycle Center is an indoor bike station in Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago. The city built the center and opened it July 2004. Since June 2006, it has been sponsored by McDonald's and several other partners, including city departments and bicycle advocacy organizations. The bike station, which serves bicycle commuters and utility cyclists, provides lockers, showers, a snack bar with outdoor summer seating, bike repair, bike rental and 300 bicycle parking spaces. The Cycle Center is accessible by membership and day pass. It also accommodates runners and in-line skaters, and provides space for a Chicago Police Department Bike Patrol Group. Planning for the Cycle Center was part of the larger "Bike 2010 Plan", in which the city aimed to make itself more accommodating to bicycle commuters. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley was an advocate of the plan. Suburban Chicago-based McDonald's sponsorship of the Cycle Center fit with their efforts to promote health. Environmentalists, urban planners and cycling enthusiasts around the world have expressed interest in the Cycle Center, and want to match its urban planning and transit-oriented development success story.
 * Most recent similar article(s): This is a civic structure in a park. I am not sure what is considered similar. Belle Vue Zoological Gardens is sort of a civic structure and appeared June 2, 2014; Sawtooth National Forest is a parkland article that appeared on May 29, 2014.
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 * Promoted: October 31, 2009
 * Reasons for nomination: 10th anniversary of official opening
 * Support as nominator. TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:45, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Sure, why not? Rare to have something like this on the MP. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:15, 25 June 2014 (UTC)