We chose these specific racks after exploring a variety of options:
1. Larger racks (holding 10 or so bikes) are large and hard to place in the narrow streets / sidewalks / courtyards of NOLA. You can sponsor multiple racks of ours and place them as the unique space provides. You can see that sometimes we put them in side by side and sometimes end to end.
2. Large racks are actually cost prohibitive. It is cheaper to sponsor 5 of these racks (made by Dero in the USA) and thus have 10 spots than to buy one large rack that holds 10 bikes. So, better both ways around.
The racks are all uniform. The only difference is the logo / statement / etc that's printed onto the plaque. One of the Submerged Roads contractors approached us about using our design (the lock and fleur de lis design that is welded into the middle is ours...you can buy the 'hitch' racks without that) but they determined they'd rather save the miniscule amount of money per rack extra to have the design (we weren't charging them, would have been purely the extra labor/material cost to cut and weld the design) so instead you will see a bunch of bland 'hitch racks' on S. Carrollton. But bland is better than none... They should be installing 20-30 or so along there. So that should help the Carrollton corridor dramatically.
Standard "hitch" rack by Dero:
http://www.dero.com/images/products/...e_hitch_sm.gif
Custom "hitch" that Dero offers:
Can't you tell i learned how to post pics?