Workplace parking

[fimm]

Free parking here - but there are about twice as many cars as parking places.... the access roads and the main road next to the site get parked up. We're on an industrial estate in the middle of nowhere (in Livingston, central Scotland). There's a couple of bike racks (which I have never seen totally filled up), we have showers and some lockers. The company (together with the company in the next building) also runs a minibus at morning and evening commute times to the nearest railway station as public transport from there is pretty poor - the minibus gets quite well used I think.

 

[Teuchter]

Free underground car parking below the office (about a mile from Glasgow city centre). It's first come first served and if you turn up towards the late end of the accepted flexitime start of 10am, you may be forced to park on the street (pay and display).

Lots of bicycle stands in the carpark - the ones next to the door to the office are often packed while the other sets of stands dispersed around the carpark are mostly empty so I use these instead.

Also an area for motorbikes, though I seldom see more than a couple in there (I take the motorbike in on average once or twice a fortnight - if for some reason I'm not cycling).

 

[peedee]

Plenty of free parking for cars, but for bikes - only a five slot wheelbender, despite my pleading that they buy Sheffield stands instead. The first slot on the wheelbender blocks a fire exit if a bike is there. The last slot requires the user to crawl on the floor to get at because of the fire escape stairs.

 

[Teuchter]

Plenty of free parking for cars, but for bikes - only a five slot wheelbender, despite my pleading that they buy Sheffield stands instead. The first slot on the wheelbender blocks a fire exit if a bike is there. The last slot requires the user to crawl on the floor to get at because of the fire escape stairs.

Place I used to work had wheelbender stands too. Lots of cyclists worked there and not a single one used the stands. We all locked our bikes to the nearby metal railings instead.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

A few years ago I persuaded the company to keep a well-stocked cycle repair toolkit, plus a variety of spare tubes, a track-pump and a workstand so that cyclists can repair their bikes in order to get themselves home if they have any mechanical trouble, which is a bonus!

That's a great idea, at the moment all the kit here belongs to me and another guy. Largely becuase we are the only two with the skills to fix things.

I'll get the bloke in charge of buying stuff and give him a talking to.
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I've talked to myself and approved it all.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

I assume you mean your work place is on the edge of Barnsley, 'cos Kilnhurst sure wasnt last time I went through it on the way to my mums in swinton!

You assume correctly