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Underground Bicycle Parking is Amazing
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underground bicycle parking garages are
fascinating because they don't really
exist that much outside of the
Netherlands the Dutch even beat the
Japanese to building the first automated
underground parking garage for bicycles
this is a pretty popular subject because
to this day my second most watched video
ever is a silent two and a half minutes
of me just parking a bicycle in an
underground parking garage in fact my
only video that has more views was my
grocery shopping video now
I like that video too but I really wish
Albert Heijn wasn't sold out of freaking
Dale brooches that day one of the things
I mentioned in the grocery shopping
video is how quickly everyday shopping
can be done here and part of that is
because it's so easy to cycle right up
to the shop lock up your bike and walk
inside that convenience is one of the
biggest benefits of cycling
well that and not getting stuck in
traffic there's only so much area in
front of a shop but that's not really a
problem because bicycles don't take up
too much space
unless of course almost everyone arrives
by bicycle this is something that I
realized very quickly after moving to
Amsterdam there were some places where
it actually wasn't convenient to cycle -
simply because it was nearly impossible
to find a legal place to park though in
some of these busier areas there are
indoor bicycle parking lots like this
one in Dubai this problem is
particularly obvious at train stations
in the Netherlands almost half of all
train travelers arrive by bicycle and
it's also common to leave your bicycle
locked up at your destination station as
well as I used to do last year that's a
underground parking garages are
expensive though and the Dutch don't
build them just to show off their
bicycle superiority over Denmark these
underground garages are built because
they're necessary
there's simply no other way to store
several people have commented on my
underground parking video that it takes
far too long for me to park my bicycle
people say they wouldn't bother and then
they would just go park out front but
it's not that simple that video shows a
parking garage called Stravinsky long
at Amsterdam's outstation it's new and
was completed only last year but there
are actually two other underground
parking garages for bicycles at the same
station one more on the north side and
this one on the south side and that's in
addition to outdoor parking as well it
might be faster to park one of these
outdoor racks but only if you can find a
spot so while underground bicycle
parking garages may look really cool
they remove one of the biggest
conveniences of riding a bicycle and
that's the really interesting challenge
facing the Netherlands how can you get
people to use an underground parking
garage when one of the major selling
points of riding a bicycle is being able
to quickly park at your destination
while there is some history of
underground bicycle parking in the
Netherlands like this basement in
Amsterdam used for bicycle parking in
1909 many of these underground garages
were built only in the last 15 years or so
so
so Dutch cities are still trying to
figure out what kind of facility works
best for enticing people to park their
bicycles underground of course when an
underground parking garage is built the
area above ground is marked as a no
parking zone for bicycles anybody
parking in these spaces may find their
bicycles tagged and taken away by the municipality
municipality
now the threat of having a bicycle taken
away is never enough to stop Dutch
people from parking wherever they want
so there also have to be benefits to
obviously the first benefit is that your
bicycle is covered from the weather
which is nice but underground parking
garages are also typically monitored by
security so they're safer than leaving
your bicycle outside
that's probably why this person felt
okay leaving their 7000 euro electric
cargo bike here though these two locks
cost more than most people's entire
bicycle the garages are also typically
free for use at the very least for the
first 24 hours after that you can pay by
the day or get a monthly subscription
there's no doubt though that it still
takes a while to park in here some of
the fancier garages have mow Vader's
which are okay when they're working but
still much slower than you know riding a
bicycle also mow vader's can be very
slippery when wet which is a problem for
a rainy country like the Netherlands so
what's more common is just stairs with a
groove to push your bicycle the first
time I arrived at this brand new
underground parking garage in Amsterdam
I had arrived with the BOK feeds and
wasn't allowed to park it because they
don't allow cargo bikes on the stairs
but they also disallowed street parking
after building the garage so I I had
nowhere to park but even with a regular
bicycle these stairs can be a real pain
as this woman demonstrates at the
station I'm Asian I suspect that car
parking garages would be much less
popular if you had to get out and push
so why do you have to do this with a bicycle
bicycle
well I'm stirred I'm at least does not
build underground bicycle parking
garages that you can ride into to the
best of my knowledge this one at the
University Amsterdam is the only cyclo
bilenda ground parking garage in the
city and that's because it was
though you might also count this one a
tree at a hospital which is a car
parking garage that has been hacked to
you can also cycle through the famous
feat slot the standalone bicycle parking
building at Amsterdam central the
concerned Amsterdam has is that unless
the slope is very gradual and therefore
very long then people may come down too
quickly into the garage and not be able
to slow themselves down with their
brakes which is fair enough but it
strikes me as something that could only
happen in the Netherlands like oh my god
Dutch cyclists won't know what to do
when they encounter a hill when we lived
in Toronto this was the hill right next
to our house going down it was a lot of
fun and going up it was less fun but
actually fine with an e bike but I digress
digress
there are rideable underground parking
garages in the Netherlands like this one
in Nijmegen the oldest example is
probably this one outside the station
and croning in which will be replaced by
this beauty in the near future and the
world's largest bicycle parking garage
and boots left allows cyclists to ride
through including up and down between levels
I would really like to see Amsterdam
relax their policy unraidable bicycle
parking garages but unfortunately all of
them that are in planning such as this
one to replace the feed slot at
Amsterdam central are still being
designed with mow Vader's or stairs it
will be really interesting to see what
Dutch cities come up with as underground
bicycle parking garages become more of a
necessity in more places and how
cyclists will be encouraged to break
their habits and use these expensive new
facilities and maybe if we're lucky we
might even get to see a future bicycle
parking garage that's even better than
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