Different needs for different demands
Because people have different reasons to travel and different destinations, you need a mix of different types of cycling facilities to meet the need for short-term parking as well as long-term storage.
1. In a perfect world...
If you ride a bike for transportation, maybe you've had this experience yourself: cyclists are happy to ride several kilometres but unhappy if they have to walk any distance from the cycle parking to their final destination. In a perfect world, each person parking a bike would have it right next to the door of the destination and 100% safe from theft, weather and damage. Since this isn’t realistic, you need to determine what sort of bike parking is appropriate where, balancing several factors, including:
- parking place close to the destination
- a safe and vandalism-proof parking place
- a convenient (in-house or covered) parking place