A new video from the fietsberaad shows a cycle park in Apeldoorn called De Serre ("the conservatory") which was designed as a transparent building so that its use was obvious from the outside as well as the inside. It is located in a shopping area near to a large department store.
With space for 600 bicycles, this is not a particularly big cycle park by Dutch standards, but it is quite novel in design.
This cycle park provides daytime guarded parking, with a receipt in order to retrieve your bike (as shown previously in Nijmegen). This makes it very secure. It also has double layer cycle parking by means of a special lift called the velovator, but while this makes lifting bikes easy, it is obvious that most people avoid the extra work if they can:
The cycle park also has a social purpose of helping re-integration into the workplace.
This cycle park has been popular enough that Apeldoorn is now planning a second with a similar design. The new "glass palace" will have 2000 spaces and be located next to the railway station.
There are many more cycle parking examples.
2 comments:
Great Idea,you are well catered for in the Netherlands. We are in the Stone age over here,it is very hard to get any Bike Parking at all . They Grudgingly will stick in 8 Bike Parking Stands/ Racks at most supermarkets in Ireland and usually they are of the Wheelbending Variety and not Sheffild Stands.
Love your blog.....wish I lived there.
The UK does seem to be obsessed with the car. No wonder we have a yob culture and an obesity problem.
Tried to view the vid on your latest blog, but the vid seems to have disappeared.
Shame.
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