Ugh, bike hangars (NIMBY alert)..
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I used one of these for about 2 years (admittedly with a fairly old/unstealable bike) and it was great. They're not beautiful and I wouldn't put my good bike in there, but for my commuter bike which I use every day and which is a pain to lug up and down the stairs of my flat, they're perfect.
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It's a suburban street in London, of course parking is bad!Wow you must have a lot of cyclists. So is parking already bad down there, as losing 2 spaces isn't going to make it better.
Yeah. We're trying to find the right people to contact/protest about this but the pointnis there is literally no use for them on our street. Every house has a front and back garden. It's nonsense. There's loads of streets with taller 4/5 storey Victorian villas that are converted into flats. My girlfriend used to live in one and she had nowhere to store her bike. They would be perfect
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Anyone know what a traffic management order is?
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How safe was/is it?
How many more cyclists left their bike there and did any get stolen?
I don't know because I don't survey random people. My bike was there for a couple of years and did not get stolen. Nor was there any evidence that the bike shelter was tampered with or that anyone had tried to force the lock.
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Looks like an air raid shelter!
Don't give me ideas
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I'm actually surprised they don't put somd sort of reflectors on them so people can see them easier. Just thinking out loud, as car lights reflect when parked, and skips tend to have lights and reflectors too. I'm not saying it's easy to miss a large object like that, but normally stuff on roads is brighter.
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That would be awesome if they put them in with those lifters from alien (that's what springs to mind with that light).
Likewise - no way I'd leave my bike in there and it's not even that valuable
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If the combination lock says “Master” on it, you can open 90% of them in under 60 seconds with no tools.
Be great if cities were like the Netherlands where everyone just rides and dumps bikes unlocked and can come back to them safely at the end of the day.
Yeah indeed. I do think how nice it'd be if there was a lot more cycling around London, but then I nearly get run down on a pedestrian crossing for the third time this week, by some Brenda not even paying attention and gliding through, and think 'nope'
The driving in London is just so negligent it's terrifying. It's definitely getting worse with delivery drivers parking up halfway across the pavement, youths on scooters ignoring any signals.. or anyone. Let alone car drivers that have absolutely zero awareness. The other evening I saw a driver on the Uxbridge Road (main thoroughfare around here) pull across traffic to the wrong side of the street, park up next to a parked car (his mate) and chat to him. So he was basically sat in the opposite lane, facing the wrong way whilst heavy traffic (including buses) had to stop and wait to go around him. The absolute entitlement of it. And a police car came along and just ignored him!!
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That makes me think of the popular "Where there's blame, there's a claim" scenarios, do these things not need reflectors or parking lights? An industrious solicitor could probably probe such matters to the car owner's advantage, assuming he wasn't inebriated or drugged up. (The car owner that is....).