Do cycle parking installers think?

[HJ]

Some very nice stands available from FYC - HJ, you're not a bike rack Anorak are you?

Me, what makes you think that?

 

[HJ]

My local Waitrose has Sheffiled stands (but not that many) right outside the front door. They also have a loan scheme whereby they let you have a bicycle trailer to take your goods home in. Nearly full marks to them.

Lucky ba$tard$, we have been trying to get them to do that in Edinburgh, but they are just not interested

 

[mcshroom]

These people are definitely anoraks - Useless Cycle Parking - GMCC

 

[Arch]

These people are definitely anoraks - Useless Cycle Parking - GMCC

Brilliant! Should be required reading for every planner....

 

[bauldbairn]

Me, what makes you think that?

Ok you are!

Love that Japanese Zig-Zag cassette rack. B)

 

[HLaB]

What I can't understand is the inconsistency with supermarket ones though,

For example Tesco's get a bad write up in general for their cycle parking (and my local one is no exception there), on the other hand when I was riding though Hexham last month I found these: -

Not undercover and screwed in rather than concreted, but I'd be happy if I found this at my local shop.

(and no I don't just go round photographing cycle parking

- I was just amazed by how many spaces they'ed allocated )

At the Broughton Street Tesco they've put 2 of those stands in the trolley shed (like the one at the end of your picture) this is a good idea in theory but its in the heart of Studentville and there just isn't enough :-(

 

[661-Pete]

What I can't understand is the inconsistency with supermarket ones though,

For example Tesco's get a bad write up in general for their cycle parking (and my local one is no exception there), on the other hand when I was riding though Hexham last month I found these: -

Not undercover and screwed in rather than concreted, but I'd be happy if I found this at my local shop.

(and no I don't just go round photographing cycle parking

- I was just amazed by how many spaces they'ed allocated )

Sadly, no-one seems to have been using the stands when you took the photo - although the car park is full.
I don't have a problem with the stands being a short walk away from the store entrance. What would be useful would be for the stands to be close to a trolley park. We usually wheel the filled panniers to the bikes in a trolley. Also nice, would be if the supermarket put up a sign at the main entrance, indicating where the bike racks are. Useful if you're in a strange place.

 

[marinyork]

Sadly, no-one seems to have been using the stands when you took the photo - although the car park is full.
I don't have a problem with the stands being a short walk away from the store entrance. What would be useful would be for the stands to be close to a trolley park. We usually wheel the filled panniers to the bikes in a trolley. Also nice, would be if the supermarket put up a sign at the main entrance, indicating where the bike racks are. Useful if you're in a strange place.

It's against guidance to put them at the extreme fringes of car parks though. It's not like they are put at the edge of a car park with a trade off - then it might be worth it - often they are at the edge of a car park with a very small number of stands. There's no physical reason why a small number of stands can't be very close to the entrance, no reason whatsoever. As for signs, a lot of supermarkets spend more money on the signs than the actual parking. Cycle parking should be so ubiquitous and placed so well that it doesn't really need signs...

 

[Kestevan]

But it's only poor people who would go shopping on a push bike.

Proper customers will find plenty of space for their 4x4 or audi tw@wagon.

Now, will all you peasants please stop moaning, and bugger off to Iceland where you belong

 

[HLaB]

Now, will all you peasants please stop moaning, and bugger off to Iceland where you belong

Aye its a lot cheaper, its just a pity my local Iceland isn't all that local and I can't recall if it has bike parking

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

I don't see the problem?


The unicycle parking facility illustrated is perfectly adequate!

 

[alasdairgf]

Does anyone know if there was any response by any of the Manchester area councils to that report?

 

[marinyork]

Does anyone know if there was any response by any of the Manchester area councils to that report?

I would think it would be similar to elsewhere 'developers are told about standards and do not always implement them'.