Some of you will know that I have long been keen on there being on street residential cycle parking, well it looks like it is happening! Only not in Edinburgh, but in Lambeth, this is just the sort of thing which I have been suggesting. Now that there is a president maybe CEC can be persuaded to follow suit.
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Posted 13 years ago #
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Excellent concept, but still silly lock-through-the-wheel wheelbender rack inside.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Kim I've got some great photos of Copenhagen residential bike parking if you need any more ammunition.
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The photos of Copenhagen residential bike parking is interesting in its own right, please tell more...
Posted 13 years ago # -
Suggest you look at the materials I worked on with Trevor parsons and logged under Homebikepark (Hackney-Cyclists website - various concepts were tested*. Back in 1998 we did try to get a 'bread bin' installed in Gayfield Square as part of an Edinburgh Residential Parking Project (more accurately 2 x Bread Bins (Jan Kuipers Fietstrommel - imported to UK by Haldo) which happily will take 10-12 bikes and fill a standard 2.2-2.5m x 5m parking bay. The major issue was the aesthehic impact of putting 2 of these on a parking bay in the New Town rather than a motor vehicle (Pardon me but is there any visual difference?). I would have recommended using clear panels throughout, black gloss steelwork finish and fitting laser-cut and possibly applique/casting profiled end panels in the style of balcony or balustrades used in the area, to soften the visual impact of a bauhaus/modernist shape.
The Lambeth unit is one the Peter Davenport was importing for Cycleworks but as is typical for installations passed with no competent site agent/QS supervising they seem to have got the bike rack installed at 90 degrees to the correct position, or more accurately the shelter is in the wrong orientation - the rack is right. In the orientation shown you will have major problems extracting bikes if someone parks hard up to the lifting door in the adjacent parking bay
The rack is NOT a wheelbender it is the common standard for many places in Europe where cycling is popular, and supports a standard 26-28" wheel at 2 points spaced on the tyre circumference, locating bike neatly in cycle parking, and deterring the multiple use which often results in a tangle of inter-locked bikes around a sheffield stand. within a locked unit, with a restricted number of users you should be able to just roll the bikes in to a supporting frame.
One neat design from Germany provides a lock-on hoop that reached to the seat tube/rear wheel and traps the front wheel in the tray. It is modular so a unit can be extended as a giant toastrack with adult and 'child' size units, and a spacing between bikes down to less than 20cm parked with overlapping front wheels and hi-lo to overlap handlebars. 26 bikes sit on a footprint just 5m x 3m (but obviously you have to allow for access gangways either side).
With the high ceilings in flats and closes one Edinburgh solution is a raised shelf with 'anchor/rest points on the wall above for the inside crank/pedal. Placing the wide parts of the bike above head height and leaning out at an angle of 17-20 degrees. I have a design for this and wheels on the ground wall parking with a bike every 90 cm (options to set from 80-120 cm) and width of 80 cm out from the wall required.
One recent alert too - on the Trimetals bike shed - make sure you fit and use all the locking points as designed - some recent thefts where weak bracket/fixing was 'exposed' and easy to attack with cutter.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Thanks Tulyar, care to give us a link to where the information is?
I agree with the sentiment about visual impact in the New Town, the council should take a zero tolerance with these visual intrusions into the architecture of the World Heritage Site and ban all parking in the area...
Posted 13 years ago # -
Guess how many bike parking spaces there are outside the main train station in Bremen... Go on. Guess.
Posted 13 years ago # -
More than in the whole of Edinburgh?
More than in Scotland?
Those Germans have taken all the bike racks.....;-)
Posted 13 years ago # -
1001
Posted 13 years ago # -
nope, all wrong. the answer is.....
zero.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Really? Aren't you being a wee bit disingenuous here? Given that the ADFC Radstation next door has 1,500 bike parking spaces...
Posted 13 years ago # -
Just in case there is any confusion here is a photo of the main train station in Bremen, no bicycles there then... ;-)
Posted 13 years ago # -
All "parked" under the no cycles sign, which presumably also explains the lack of racks! I suppose there'd be a white van along to lift them all if this were in the UK...
Robert
Posted 13 years ago # -
Popped into the centre of town (would you say that in Scotland/Edin?)today to do a bit of shopping. Now in my opinion there has been a sorry lack of suitable cycle parking along Princes St, Rose St etc for as long as I've lived here, but at least you used to be able to find a space. Today all the racks were full!
Now, I admit it's great if this is due to more people being out on bikes and not as a result of reduced parking spaces. But... WE NEED MORE CYCLE PARKING...NOW!!
How hard can it be? World-class cycling city, Ha!
Posted 12 years ago #
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