Public Cycle Lockers

[steve30]

Here in Rotherham we have a lot of cycle lockers which you can conveniently lock your bike in (you just bring your own padlock) (see picture). We've had these for many years and I've written about them various times. Unfortunately they don't get repaired or maintained properly. In the past I've had to repeatedly complain to the council to get them to clean up litter which people throw inside them.



Much to my amazement, they actually renovated them about 3 or 4 years ago (several had been damaged for years)! Then some time later, someone decided we weren't going to be able to use them at all. Some of them got locked shut with padlocks, and the majority had zip ties attached. I queried this with both the council and my local elected representative but as expected, neither replied. I asked why three quarters of the town's cycle parking is out of order at a time when we are both trying to encourage cycling and can simultaneously offer free car parking. Your guess is as good as mine .



My lookalike happened to go out the other week with a pair of scissors✂️.

 

[Drago]

Active travel is a carncil priority here.

Yet report a cycle route blocked by foliage they put it on a 26 week schedule for rectification.

Block a road so cars cant get past and theyre out withing rhe hour.

Active travel a prioroty, my arris.

 

[ColinJ]

Then some time later, someone decided we weren't going to be able to use them at all. Some of them got locked shut with padlocks, and the majority had zip ties attached.

My guess is that it was people doing the cycling equivalent of leaving a towel on a deckchair, i.e. "This is mine - I got here first!"

 

[Pat "5mph"]

My lookalike happened to go out the other week with a pair of scissors✂️.

Well done, great thinking!

 

[Mike Ayling]

My guess is that it was people doing the cycling equivalent of leaving a towel on a deckchair, i.e. "This is mine - I got here first!"

The padlock ones, yes, not sure about the cable ties..

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

AT the train station near here they have cycle lockers

but when I have been down there they are all either damaged - looking like someone witha LARGE crowbar has levered them opne
or rusted to Hell and back
or locked up with no bike inside!

in other words - no cycle storage available

so if you book a ticket ona train and ride down there hoping to leave your bike then you have very little chance of being able to