Station Cycle Parking Threat!
Well-used Station cycle stands to be replaced by shops!
If current plans go ahead for repaving of the Nottingham Station forecourt (Porte Cochere) these well-used cycle stands will disappear next year and be replaced by shops or even a restaurant!
Pedals is protesting strongly at the loss of this well-used facility, probably the best used group of cycle stands in Nottingham, and the present plan to relocate them in the Milk Dock area on the north sided of the Station, a much less convenient location and one that many users will also find less safe to use, particularly after dark.
These plans form the first phase of the major redevelopment of the Station due to take place over the next few years.
Pedals wants to see improved cycle parking and improved cycle access feature much more prominently in this welcome major redevelopment, to help ease the growing traffic problems that could arise from this and the generally very welcome major increase in rail passengers.
Pedals Pictures
Comments
There is something to lock
There is something to lock your frame through, but it's not obvious from the pics. (You can just see it by the side of the black town bike.) It's a trombone-slide-shaped thing that swivels up. I couldn't lock my back wheel and frame together to it, though; only the frame or the back wheel.
I must say, I much prefer the ground-based half of these racks rather than the sliding machinery of the upper half. It's not all that easy womanhandling your bike up onto it.
Plus there are little rat-trap things on the aerial racks that catch your wheel by the spokes and stop it sliding back. They can tend to catch your front wheel as you're taking the bike out. I found them a bit irritating.
Still, they were pretty well used today even on a horrible day, and some people have already started to stake a claim to some of aerial stands with those marker-locks that have no bikes attached to them, so that's good.