New Bike Park in Drury Street

It's good to know it's free.

Yeah, saw that the other day, haven't used it yet but it looks great.

Thanks Andrew

Andrew, may I suggest that bike parking, like the one thats near Pearse St Garda Station, be replicated wherever possible in front of, or close by, to other Garda Stations? When the 'plaza' in front of Store St was redeveloped a couple of years back, ALL the bike parks were removed, which was a nightmare, as that part of town can be a bit touch and go with leaving a bike for a few hours at night.

On the path next to the Bridewell, in front of FitzGibbon St, etc would be great. But Store St would be a great start.
I think people generally feel safer when locking a bike in view of a Garda Station because there are generally cops in the area, coming in and out, double parking their cars on the street , etc.

I'd also recommend doubling, tripling even, the current capacity in the centre of O'Connell Street - because a lot of parks were removed from the junction of Abbey Street when the Luas works were put down, and also when the redevelopment of the street happened, many of the parks in the north end of the street near the Savoy also vanished, in addition to the ones near the O'Connell monument. What you have instead at the moment is people locking their bikes onto young trees, which I'm sure is detrimental to them.

The parks up at the Luas stop on Stephens Green also need to be doubled, tripled, maybe even quadrupled - unless of course, Connex are OK with the current situation of people locking their bikes onto the platform fencing. But I dont like to think of the people there one day coming back and having had their bikes removed.

As someone mentioned already, places like Connolly, and Heuston, Pearse Stations can never have enough. Cyclists "green the last mile" and it should be encouraged with connections to other forms of public commuter transport.

Of course, this is slightly off topic, but seeing as how we're on wishlists, I swear to god I would campaign for you to the ends of the earth if you were somehow able to pull some strings at the national level to change Iarnroid Eireann's policies for bikes on trains (again, greening the last mile, and also for tourism purposes - at the moment you cant even bring a bike down to Rosslare on the train because it doesnt have a guard's carriage, despite the fact the train can be half empty most of the time, most people either fly to france these days, or else those that go to rosslare are getting the ferry with a car, they dont need the train).

Most european and even north american urban centres have a policy of 'not during rush hour, but otherwise ok' for bikes on trains, cf. San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto. It drives me spare when getting the train into town in the middle of the day and I have to leave my bike behind, even though there's acres of free space on the train.

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OK I'll stop and leave it at that.
For the moment.

So six months on, has anyone used the bike park much? I'm in town all day Monday and Tuesday, and was considering locking my bike up here. Normally I'd only ever leave it at home or in office - have there been any horror stories emanating from Drury Street yet?

Jip wrote: »

Not sure if this is widely known about yet, don't think I've seen mention of it anywhere else bar here.

A few signposts telling people where it is wouldn't go amiss. Ditto for signs pointing to the nearest DB stand.

I actually used it for the first time last night. Was a little wary at first as it's out of view so you're relying on the security in the place completely but the bike was there when I got back and I'll use it again.

It could seriously do with better signposting though. I went into the other car park on Drury St first.

Use it 3 nights a week. Very convenient for me and I have seen usage vary between days. Shame it's not used more.

Also a shame that this is a regular sight...



I've been tweeting images like this a few times, and it's apparently been highlighted to the cycling officer in Dublin... but it's still a bit ridiculous.

projectmayhem wrote: »

Use it 3 nights a week. Very convenient for me and I have seen usage vary between days. Shame it's not used more.

Also a shame that this is a regular sight...



I've been tweeting images like this a few times, and it's apparently been highlighted to the cycling officer in Dublin... but it's still a bit ridiculous.

AFAIK that car belongs to one of the staff. It's usually there in the AM but gone later.

An enterprising Vespa owner has also taken to parking in the bike park recently. Not that it's an issue at the moment, given that there are rarely more than 20 bikes using the facility.

seeing_ie wrote: »

No direct line of sight for staff onto the bikes and not much of a security presence

I've parked there about a dozen times and have yet to see any security staff in that office.

And that bloody jeep is still parked there!

tomasrojo wrote: »

You can PM him. He posts here. Or, at the least, used to until quite recently.

His user name is AMontague.

Will do. Thanks.

gwjones42 wrote: »

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but am sitting here fuming after my bike was taken from the parking facility on Drury Street this evening between 3:30 and 7:30 and need to talk about it.

It was a shiny new Bike to Work Trek Road Bike that was black and blue, with white handles and saddle and had a strong lock that I've been using without issue for the past couple of months on my commute between Maynooth and Ballyfermot, but I now realise I should have used more than one lock....or just not gone to the city centre on it at all..........but if it's the case that a purpose built bike parking facility isn't safe, then where is???

I knew there was a huge risk bringing it into town and wouldn't dream of locking it to a lampost, so I did my research online and only decided to go in on the bike after finding out about the indoor parking area "with cctv" (as the DCC cycling blog says).

I'm thinking now that all the cctv will be good for will be showing it being taken :-(

Anyway....it was a risk and I was naive to bring an eye-catching bike to a place that I couldn't keep an eye on it....now I've paid for it.

Be warned!

Post pictures on twitter and ask for some retweets timi from picturethis had his stolen from his apaprtment and it was spotted times around town and in the end he got it back.

No lock is good enough for an angle grinder.

Sorry for your loss gwjones. Have you secured the CCTV footage from the car park security and reported the theft to guards?

A chain and padlock might not be as secure as you think. Depends on what chain and what padlock. Even with an excellent chain and padlock, you have to make sure the chain can't be made to touch the ground, as it's very vulnerable to a bolt-cutter attack in that arrangement, as the the thief can stand on the bolt cutters for extra force.

Here's me looking ridiculously excited the day I got it. I still have the panniers and lights as I was carrying them around with me.

That's a bollix, I've parked there for years and no problems. Really sorry your bike was stolen from there.
Let us know the outcome of the CCTV, if there is one.