Better Bankside ebrief, FEBRUARY 2006

Free cycle stands for Bankside businesses

As Better Bankside conducts an audit of existing provision.

Do you or your colleagues have trouble finding cycle parking when you need it?
Do you know sites in the Bankside area where you think cycle parking is needed?
Would you like to have free cycle parking stands installed at your workplace?

On behalf of the Better Bankside Travel Planning Group and Transport for London Che Sutherland of SEA/Renue will be auditing provision of cycle stands in the Bankside area and providing new free stands for businesses.

Che will:

look at use of existing cycle stands
collect your suggestions on where you would like to see on-street cycle parking
review provision in key visitor locations
feed back to Southwark Council sites where further on-street parking is required
provide free cycle parking stands and installation for organisation's own sites
offer general advice and expertise on installing cycle parking stands

The attached map shows current cycle parking sites in the Better Bankside area.

(Click map to download PDF)

To make a suggestion of a site for cycle parking, or to arrange cycle parking for your site please contact Che Sutherland, on 020 7820 3184 or email ches@sustainable-energy.org.uk.
The free stands are flat top Sheffield stands, as illustrated. They can be sited inside our outside, but must allow enough spacing between each other and any other objects/walls.
Stands can be either bolted down or sunk into the ground, depending on the existing surface. Stands can be bolted onto concrete, but mostly need to be sunk into the ground when on tarmac or paving.

Guidance on best practice in the placing and fitting of cycle stands is available through London Cycle Design Standards and downloadable in the reports library at www.tfl.gov.uk/cycling.
More and more organisations, including major corporates such as GlaxoSmithKline, have already seen benefits from providing cycle facilities for their staff.

Peter Handcock, Vice-President, World Wide Real Estate, GSK, comments:
'Getting more people cycling means that we use our buildings more efficiently and adds to creating a more happy and healthy work force. It is not so much a case of "do-gooding" as of good business'.

As well as the cost benefits from more employees cycling, employers also benefit from a fitter, healthier workforce. Regular cycling halves the chances of heart disease, helps prevent strokes and diabetes and lowers blood pressure and resting heart rate.

Ben Plowden, Managing Director Group Communications, TfL, said:
'It is estimated that each parking space costs up to £2,000 a year to maintain, but five bicycles will fit into a parking space. Encouraging just five members of staff to travel to work by bicycle could save a company as much as £8,000.'

Current cycle parking sites in the Better Bankside area
Click here to download PDF

TFL Cycling
www.tfl.gov.uk/cycling

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