In my experience, there is not enough proper bike parking in Dutch cities to avoid “wild parking”. A space in a bike rack will almost always be preferred to a random pole.
Indeed. Even though there’s a lot of bike racks. I feel that we need at least three times more. Also, many people have 2 or 3 bikes parked in different stations and other bikes get abandoned in the parking place. I think they should start checking that bikes are not parked in a spot more than 30 days.
2200 cases in a whole year in a Dutch city of 120000 people seems low. I am almost certain I see more than 2200 cases of car parking violations in a year just personally and I am working home office.
Instead of trying to tackle the real issue: “why people park their bikes where they shouldn’t?”. They decide to tackle the symptom… That’s your average politician.
I can see why abandoned bicycles would be a problem. If they put up a notice that they’ll clean up a street from all bicycles in a week, there should be no issue.
They should install Sheffield racks everywhere. It is, after all, the superior design for bicycle parking.
Well, what they use a lot in the Netherlands is a two floor bike rack. Something like this: https://images.app.goo.gl/7JBUFp6PnARhSKkX6
I think Sheffield racks are superior from a usability-standpoint, and potentially from an affordability-standpoint as well. They may be worse from a space-efficiency standpoint, however.
I think you don’t get the amount of bikes on Dutch roads we use front wheel stanyd like these:
Sheffield style tracks would be flooded and bikes jammed everywhere in between.
I realise that there are a lot of bikes in the Netherlands. I know bike theft is also a pretty big problem. Introducing some Sheffield racks could go some way to mitigate the issue.
I imagine there’s still a not-insignificant amount of car parking that can be removed to make up for the relatively larger amount of space that the Sheffield racks require.
