Good quality cycle parking and storage are essential to support more people to travel by bike. Cycling Scotland works with partners across Scotland, including local authorities, social housing providers, workplaces and schools to provide expertise and funding to increase access to cycle parking and storage.
Cycling Scotland supports the delivery of the Scottish Government’s People & Place programme, working with Regional Transport Partnerships.
Cycle parking is a facility to securely and conveniently lock a bike for a short duration (not overnight).
Cycle storage is a secure and covered facility for conveniently storing bikes overnight e.g. resident cycle storage for high rise flats.
A lack of suitable cycle storage is one of the most common barriers to cycling, as detailed in our residential cycle storage research. This project analysed housing stock across Scotland and found that one third of Scottish households are likely to have no safe place to store a bike. It also highlights the clear links to transport poverty and other social inequalities, and the importance of safe cycle storage to access the many benefits and opportunities that cycling can provide.
Cycling Scotland is working with regional partners to provide grant funding and bespoke guidance to organisations to support the improvement and installation of cycle parking and storage facilities for workplaces, schools and social housing providers in many areas across Scotland.
For more information on what support is available in your area, please contact us or complete an expression of interest.
Our regional partners include Nestrans, SEStrans, SPT, SWestrans and Tactran.
Our new cycle stores were in regular use from day one, and feedback has been overwhelmingly positive with all spaces now booked.
Some residents have even said that they have been able to buy a bike for the first time, now they have somewhere to store it.
