difficult to find a secure and accessible space to store your bike?
If the answer is yes, then you’re probably not alone. Since 2003 the population
of ‘greater’ Bedminster (Southville and Bedminster) has risen by 22% and the
number of people regularly walking and cycling has also risen significantly.
Greater Bedminster has the third lowest levels of car availability in the city.
As many as 31% of households have no car (the Bristol average is 29%) and this
area has the fourth highest proportion of people who travel to work on foot or
by bicycle at 39% (the Bristol average is 27%). Source Greater Bedminster
Neighbourhood Partnership Statistical Profile 2014, Bristol City Council
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/community_and_safety/neighbourhood_partnerships/NP10%20Bedminster%20Southville%20%282014%29.pdf
Cycling is a convenient and healthy way to make short journeys to work, to the
shops or for leisure. However, many people in greater Bedminster live in
terrace houses where storage for bikes is limited and awkward. Some people have
invested in secure bike storage boxes in their own gardens, but many people
don’t have the space in their gardens or the resources for these.
In 2015 a trial on-street ‘bikehanger’ storage box was installed in Eldon
Terrace, Windmill Hill. The bikehanger is installed on the road and takes up
approximately half a parking space. It can accommodate six bikes securely. The
purchase and installation of the bikehanger was funded by a local transport
grant and each bike space is rented to a bike owner for £25 a year (equivalent
to about 50p a week). Local charity LifeCycle administer the renting of the
bike hanger spaces. For more info. see
http://www.cyclehoop.com/news/march-2015/first-bikehangar-for-bristol/
If you would be interested in having a bikehanger near you or in your street
please complete this short survey to help establish if there is demand and
sufficient interest for more bike hangers to be established in greater
Bedminster.
http://tinyurl.com/bedminsterbikehangersurvey