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parking near the EICC?

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  • Started 11 years ago by cc
  • Latest reply from Arellcat
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  1. cc
    Member

    I'm going to a conference! Where's a good place near the conference centre to lock up my bike? Any recommendations?

    I went there yesterday and found four wee rack-ettes out the front of the building; a couple of lamposts across the road; some cyclist-crusher barrier fencing just down the hill; and a bit further away there's Festival Square but there doesn't seem to be anywhere more secure or reassuring.

    The EICC and conference sites are no help sadly ("For further advice on alternative modes of transport http://www.sestran.gov.uk").

    Any more ideas please? Or is that the lot?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  2. gembo
    Member

    I was at a conference in the new venue when it first opened. No racks. Plenty of bikes chained to fence (building works not quite complete so area fenced off). Staff did say racks would be going in. Four isn't a lot. Where are they in relation to the two venues? Nothing down the side of either building?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  3. davey2wheels
    Member

    @cc, there's only those rack-ettes as you call them. It's actually five in front between the Centre and Atria Two entrances, another two close to the Atria One main entrance and ten close to the Atria One rear entrance in Conference Square.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  4. cc
    Member

    Thanks both. The four wee racks I spotted were in front of the Morrison St entrance to the conference centre. So there are more racks uphill near the 'Atria' buildings - I hadn't looked that way so thanks for that!
    I didn't see anything down the side or round the back, particularly, so I missed those ten racks somehow. Sounds like I should be OK then - thanks again.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  5. gembo
    Member

    Down the side of the newer venue was where the staff were suggesting racks would go. Bet of luck

    Posted 11 years ago #

  6. cc
    Member

    Cheers!

    (also, GEMBO GEMBO GEMBO!!!)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  7. gembo
    Member

    Thanks CC, tell me did you have your right arm raised when typing?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  8. chrisfl
    Member

    There are 10 racks around the back of the Atria building and they are covered by the building overhang which is a nice bonus.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  9. cc
    Member

    @chrisfl: thanks, they'll be my first port of call in that case!

    @gembo : absolutely :)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  10. cc
    Member

    I found the racks behind "Atria One" (surely ungrammatical...) and they're good - well spaced, way under cover, and there are free racks. Thanks again.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  11. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Atria One, with cycle parking marked:

    http://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=18&lat=55.94632&lon=-3.2083&layers=B000

    Posted 11 years ago #

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