Any other Councils offering these ?

[summerdays]

My step daughter tried to get for one in her street in bristol.
The General response to the flyers put through the doors to gauge opinion was that many people who couldnt park outside their own house objected to a cycle parking facility outside a house where the owners didnt have a car , because they wanted to park there.

Bristol installed one last year in St Werburgh's, and asked for people to suggest locations for them this year.

 

[ianrauk]

Saw one today in North London near Finsbury Park.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Bristol installed one last year in St Werburgh's, and asked for people to suggest locations for them this year.

They did that in Lewisham a couple of years ago. I've no idea who else voted for where I used to live but apparently they got one.

 

[jefmcg]

I don't want to store my car in it i want to store my timber / wood in it .
Why is it funny , well it was a thing called a joke .

I know it was a joke and I get it and I smiled ....


then i started thinking about society, and wondered how the car got to be so special that you can just leave it outside your house taking up valuable real estate, but you can't use that space for anything else. If one person can store their car on public land, why can't their neighbour store the timber in a similar spot?

The difference is not obvious to me. "Car is King" isn't a reason.

 

[annedonnelly]

I saw something like that when I visited Walthamstow a few weeks ago. I meant to have a closer look on the way back but walked up a different road and missed it.

Looks like a good idea to me. Not everyone wants to take their bike into the house.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I don't want to store my car in it i want to store my timber / wood in it .
Why is it funny , well it was a thing called a joke .

It was funny.
The question is, why public space to park a car is readily given, but taking up public space to store your wood (or my trailer, or somebody's pram) is never considered.
I had to hire a skip recently: by council regulations, it was not allowed to sit where the street is lined with cars every day between 6pm-6am.
Because it would have obstructed the road: for cars it's ok.

 

[Cuchilo]

I know it was a joke and I get it and I smiled ....


then i started thinking about society, and wondered how the car got to be so special that you can just leave it outside your house taking up valuable real estate, but you can't use that space for anything else. If one person can store their car on public land, why can't their neighbour store the timber in a similar spot?

The difference is not obvious to me. "Car is King" isn't a reason.

One reason . Tax .

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I know it was a joke and I get it and I smiled ....


then i started thinking about society, and wondered how the car got to be so special that you can just leave it outside your house taking up valuable real estate, but you can't use that space for anything else. If one person can store their car on public land, why can't their neighbour store the timber in a similar spot?

The difference is not obvious to me. "Car is King" isn't a reason.

And creating dangers - bad sight lines, especially for crossing pedestrians. I live in an area of London where virtually every street has turned into what is, in effect, a single track road with occasional passing places and where I got forced off the street twice in the same week when I had priority (going by the unparked side of the road rule in the HC).

 

[Cuchilo]

It was funny.
The question is, why public space to park a car is readily given, but taking up public space to store your wood (or my trailer, or somebody's pram) is never considered.
I had to hire a skip recently: by council regulations, it was not allowed to sit where the street is lined with cars every day between 6pm-6am.
Because it would have obstructed the road: for cars it's ok.

you can put a skip where you like as long as you pay the council fee for it . About £160 last time i looked .

 

[Pat "5mph"]

you can put a skip where you like as long as you pay the council fee for it . About £160 last time i looked .

The skip alone was £200!! Anyway, skip man said he would get fined, we left it in the front garden - not mine lol, with permission of the owner.

 

[Cuchilo]

The skip alone was £200!! Anyway, skip man said he would get fined, we left it in the front garden - not mine lol, with permission of the owner.

Yup £200 for a skip plus road tax if you want it on the road . The company supplying the skip will get fined if the tax isn't paid .

 

[ozboz]

Where I live there are about 4 sizeable tenement blocks with inner courtyards used for social and parking , These bike box things could be well handy there , save having to lug your bike up and down and take up valuable living space , looking around here this eve I have spotted several places on roads that have spaces that would not hinder any parking ,

 

[ClichéGuevara]

It was funny.
The question is, why public space to park a car is readily given, but taking up public space to store your wood (or my trailer, or somebody's pram) is never considered.
I had to hire a skip recently: by council regulations, it was not allowed to sit where the street is lined with cars every day between 6pm-6am.
Because it would have obstructed the road: for cars it's ok.

A few years back, I was working at a house and the occupier couldn't drive, but bought a car to sit outside his house so nobody else could park in 'his' space. His son gave it a run round when he visited.

 

[snorri]

A trial has been running in Edinburgh for some time.
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/20135/cycling_projects/654/residential_bike_parking

 

[snorri]

One reason . Tax .

Clarify.