No bicycles in Donaghmede centre.

Pigeon Reaper

I've just come back from Donaghmede shopping centre where I discovered that the bicycle stands have all been removed. There is no where to lock a bicycle without blocking a path or disabled space as this is where the few poles are located.

Considering the racks where constantly in use and that I passed three other cyclists looking for somewhere to pass in less than a minute this seems like a silly mistake. It would appear that the management removed over ten bicycle spaces to make one car parking space.

Since one of the main retailers in the centre is Duff cycles I'm surprised at this even more. After all it's harder to sell town bicycles and bike baskets if even the bicycle shop doesn't have somewhere to lock a bicycle.

velo.2010

Surprised they would go to that trouble to make one new car space. They probably had some trouble with bikes being thieved or damaged that it wasn't worth the bother to maintain the spaces.

I used to work in there part time as a teenager. I used to cycle down and lock my bike those racks (I presume they're the same). One evening a couple of lads tried to steal the bike - I managed to see them as they were doing it and roared and chased them off. Ended up locking it in behind were the trolleys were kept in the centre itself or in the back stores. I wouldn't fancy locking a bike of any sort outside a shopping centre now!

clonmahon

Maybe they are just making too much money there and have no interest in cyclists euros.

Crow92

Thats a load of bull =/ I haven't been to donaghmede in about a month or two but I always locked up at the racks, I wonder why they got rid of them, hardly worth a car space if that's what they did with the space.

C3PO

I'm guessing that it has more to do with bikes being stolen and owners feeling the centre has some liability!

Kintarō Hattori

It could just be bad planning. When I used to live in the city centre parking up your bike was no problem but having moved to a more rural area of Dublin it annoys me just how poorly cyclists are catered for.

There's a small shopping complex close to me which was built only a few years ago. There isn't a single bike stand/rack in the whole place which I find to be madness considering how recently it was built.
The SuperValue which is on the main street and has a car park to the rear also has 0 bicycle spaces. Lidl have a supermarket and quite a large carpark again with 0 bike spaces. Only one shopping major shopping area in the town has bike spaces and it opened just this year.

Cyclists here (Balbriggan) seem to be a distinct afterthought.

galwaycyclist

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

It could just be bad planning. When I used to live in the city centre parking up your bike was no problem but having moved to a more rural area of Dublin it annoys me just how poorly cyclists are catered for.
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Cyclists here (Balbriggan) seem to be a distinct afterthought.

If might be worth looking up the county development plan that applied at the time these developments were constructed. Likely there is a clause specifying that a defined number of bike stands were to be provided relative to the number of car parking spaces.