Cycle parking at Groningen Station

May 19, 2010 by paul

Very impressive was the cycle parking at Groningen Station in Holland which we saw on our trip there last year.

As David Hembrow writes;

In 2006, Groningen finished a very impressive new underground cyclepark at the main railway station, called the stadsbalkon. The new park was originally to hold around 3000 bikes, but during the design stage it was expanded to around 4150. This brought the total number of bicycles which could be parked around Groningen station to around 6500, which is about one for every 30 residents of the city.

However, before the stadsbalkon was even completed, the cycling officer of the city, Cor van de Klaauw, expressed concerns that they had not actually done enough.

The number of spaces in the stadsbalkon has now been expanded to 5150 places and along with other additions the total number around the station is to be around 9800, bringing the number of cycle parking spaces at the station to around one for every twenty citizens.

Now where did i park my bike....