2Loose
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Interesting article on Bike Parking
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upsidedown
Waiting for the great leap forward
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It's an interesting article, i like the sentence that parking is fuel to traffic's fire.
Councils have been saying for years that they will tax workplace parking spaces, but i have never seen it happen.
Councils have been saying for years that they will tax workplace parking spaces, but i have never seen it happen.
upsidedown said:
This is proposed for Nottingham to come into affect 2010
http://www.is4profit.com/small-busi...rkplace-parking-levy-extended-nationwide.html
jonny jeez
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- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
"(In England, for example, it's been estimated that a bicycle is stolen every 71 seconds.)"
See HJ, there are some perks to living in Aberdeen...even the "septics tanks" realise this!!
pretty good article, and my point exactley about the fear of leaving my precious bike strapped to some tree, whether its at the local shops or my office. If "secure" parking were abundant and available ...many more of us would drop the car entirely
See HJ, there are some perks to living in Aberdeen...even the "septics tanks" realise this!!
pretty good article, and my point exactley about the fear of leaving my precious bike strapped to some tree, whether its at the local shops or my office. If "secure" parking were abundant and available ...many more of us would drop the car entirely
HJ
Cycling in Scotland
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- Auld Reekie
There was a place I used to work at in Edinburgh where there was no official car parking but people used to park on all the side streets round about. Then the council decided to make all the side streets in that part of town pay & display (with a 4 hour limit), there was much disgruntlement among staff and senior management eventually found a spare bit of land to be used for parking (about 500m from the main buildings) at the same time new cycle parking facilities were added just out side of the main reception. Only problem was there weren't enough cycle spaces, a traffic survey was carried out which showed the 20% of staff, students etc cycled in (and the was before they started the C2W scheme).
Restricting car parking and increasing cycle parking can have a positive effect. Now they just need to build one of those Japanese cycle parking towers, that is awesome!
And no Jonny there are no perks to living in Aberdeen, just at present the septics tanks are over flowing...
Fortunately I now live back in Edinburgh, a city widely recognised as the best place to live in Britain, even if we don't (yet) have the best cycle parking...
Restricting car parking and increasing cycle parking can have a positive effect. Now they just need to build one of those Japanese cycle parking towers, that is awesome!
And no Jonny there are no perks to living in Aberdeen, just at present the septics tanks are over flowing...
Fortunately I now live back in Edinburgh, a city widely recognised as the best place to live in Britain, even if we don't (yet) have the best cycle parking...
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
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- South Croydon
XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
Taken from the original article:
99 percent of car trips in the United States terminate in a free parking space
Can you imagine the uproar if they had to pay for parking as much as we do in the UK and Europe? That would make me laugh
99 percent of car trips in the United States terminate in a free parking space
Can you imagine the uproar if they had to pay for parking as much as we do in the UK and Europe? That would make me laugh
Crankarm
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2Loose said:
Wow! Amazing what can be achieved when there is a will and a way. Can't imagine anything like this EVER being available in the UK
. May as well be out of Star Trek as far as the UK is concerned.
Big Jack Brass
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- Manchester, alas.
Cycle parking seems to be getting even less generous and secure where I work. The former bike shed had a locking metal door and a rack inside. This has now been converted into a sandwich kiosk called, rather insensitively I thought, The Bike Shed. As for the bikes, they are now in full view of the road, attached to an old and rusty wheel rack next to a sign telling us that the management take no responisbility for theft or damage 
Rather incredibly, the rack itself isn't attached to anything... Several people leave their bikes unlocked, or attached to anything handy nearby as there are now fewer spaces than before, despite supposedly trying to encourage new cyclists by offering Cycle Scheme.
I think I'll wander over to Police HQ next week and see about parking there instead.
Rather incredibly, the rack itself isn't attached to anything... Several people leave their bikes unlocked, or attached to anything handy nearby as there are now fewer spaces than before, despite supposedly trying to encourage new cyclists by offering Cycle Scheme.I think I'll wander over to Police HQ next week and see about parking there instead.
