Largest bicycle parking facility in the world.

The Noble Nudge

https://www.khl.com/construction-europe/largest-bicycle-parking-facility-in-the-world/139744.article?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Construction+Europe+-+21st+August+2019&utm_term=CE

Famed for its flat landscape, perfect for cycling, the Netherlands has today completely opened the largest bicycle parking facility anywhere in the world in the city of Utrecht.

The facility has 12,500 spaces over three floors for bike parking which are open 24/7. The first 24 hours of parking completely free.

The Municipality of Utrecht, ProRail and NS (Dutch Railways) jointly developed the facility employing Dutch contractor BAM and will continue to manage the multi-storey known as Stationsplein over the coming years.

The decision to build such a facility was taken as part of a strategy in which hundreds of millions of euros will be used to improve cycling infrastructure across the Netherlands.

Stientje van Veldhoven, junior infrastructure minister, said “We are striving to make it [the Netherlands] a cyclists’ paradise and there’s still much to be done.

“I’d like us to make better use of what I call this secret weapon against congestion, poor air quality in cities and climate change that is also good for your health and your wallet.”

Project construction facts

The facility’s gross floor space is 21,373 m2
Sheet piles 10,000 m2
Piles 25,000 m
Earth moved 51,000 m3
Concrete 17,500 m3
Reinforcement 2,615 tonnes
Prefab columns 232 units
Prefab stairs and landings 52 units
Timber frame construction walls 2,227 m2
Metal cassettes 4,389 m2
Wooden slats against wall 4,035 m2
Screed floors 16,000 m2
Plastic floor finish 16,000 m2
3 glass houses with staircases

Type 17

Decent video of it here:

https://youtu.be/ypGMoe468vs

mamax

Our government would sh!t themselves if anything even remotely similar to this was proposed.

Pawwed Rig

Walking around Amsterdam I wondered how many of the chained up bikes are abandoned or lost. Does anyone monitor bikes that do not move? In some places they were 3 and 4 deep along railings.

Idleater

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Walking around Amsterdam I wondered how many of the chained up bikes are abandoned or lost. Does anyone monitor bikes that do not move? In some places they were 3 and 4 deep along railings.

Every now and again they put a (say) blue sticker on each saddle at say 5am. X days later they stick a (say) green sticker beside any blue ones. Y days later they cut any locks and remove an remaining stickered bikes. I think they auction donate them.

Lusk_Doyle

Awesome. Where there is a will there is a way.

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I think some of these bike parks are controversial in parts of the Netherlands as they are often in places where the town has decided it is illegal to park your bike on the street, so it's conversely a disincentive to cycling.
I haven't read up on this one to know of it's the case or not.

I'm must back from a small city in the north of the Netherlands, and the infrastructure was unbelievable. And an incredible number of people on bikes.
The bike parking at the train station was absolutely massive and packed.