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Love bikes, hate ‘wild parking’ – Dutch city puts rule-breakers on the rack
(www.theguardian.com)
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They should install Sheffield racks everywhere. It is, after all, the superior design for bicycle parking.
Well, what they use a lot in the Netherlands is a two floor bike rack. Something like this: https://images.app.goo.gl/7JBUFp6PnARhSKkX6
I think Sheffield racks are superior from a usability-standpoint, and potentially from an affordability-standpoint as well. They may be worse from a space-efficiency standpoint, however.
I think you don't get the amount of bikes on Dutch roads we use front wheel stanyd like these:
Sheffield style tracks would be flooded and bikes jammed everywhere in between.
I realise that there are a lot of bikes in the Netherlands. I know bike theft is also a pretty big problem. Introducing some Sheffield racks could go some way to mitigate the issue.
I imagine there's still a not-insignificant amount of car parking that can be removed to make up for the relatively larger amount of space that the Sheffield racks require.