Stand and Deliver - Cycle Parking in London

[Origamist]

June 2009 report:

http://www.southwarkcyclists.org.uk/files/Cycle_parking_final_report_250609.pdf

 

[dellzeqq]

a bit of a curate's egg. No mention of Marylebone Station, which is odd. Very little mention of shopping, which is excruciatingly poor, because cycle parking in high streets helps to restore some competitive power to local shops. No mention of residential developments, on which the Boroughs (including Southwark) are fantastically ignorant, preferring underground dungeons to larger lifts and space within flat hallways.

 

[Origamist]

a bit of a curate's egg. No mention of Marylebone Station, which is odd. Very little mention of shopping, which is excruciatingly poor, because cycle parking in high streets helps to restore some competitive power to local shops. No mention of residential developments, on which the Boroughs (including Southwark) are fantastically ignorant, preferring underground dungeons to larger lifts and space within flat hallways.

Marylebone does get a fleeting mention under good practice on p.24.

 

[dellzeqq]

I stand corrected. It's not listed under the rail termini.

 

[srw]

It's managed by the TOC, not by National Rail.

 

[skrx]

Marylebone does get a fleeting mention under good practice on p.24.

"Respondents to the investigation cited Marylebone station, operated by Chiltern Railways, as a station with good cycle parking facilities. Parking is on a platform on the train side of the barriers and only season ticket holders can use it."

Why is it good that only season ticket holders can use it? Unless there's adequate alternative parking very close by, I'd say that was bad.

 

[srw]

Why is it good that only season ticket holders can use it? Unless there's adequate alternative parking very close by, I'd say that was bad.

It's not great, but it does at least mean that season ticket holders (and my guess is that 90% of users with bikes are season ticket holders) can get a bike parking space. It's one way of rationing a scarce resource.

 

[Origamist]

It's not great, but it does at least mean that season ticket holders (and my guess is that 90% of users with bikes are season ticket holders) can get a bike parking space. It's one way of rationing a scarce resource.

And it's likely that season ticket holders with bikes are rating the facilities highly...

At Marylebone cycle storage is under cover and has CCTV - they also use Sheffield stands... They still need more though.