 As part of Travel West's Cycle ambition fund, on 17 applications for on-street cycle hangers were accepted on 8 July 2016. A bike hangar is a covered, lockable and secure pod which sits on the road. It takes up about the same amount of space as a parked car and it can hold 6 bikes securely.  It’s a safe and cheap alternative for people who lack space in their homes to store their bikes. There is a small annual rental charge to hire a space in a bike hangar, part of a membership renewable each year. The hangars are supplied by Cyclehoop and administered by LifeCycleUK. Applications for more hangers are promised to re-open before the year-end. The project has until March 2018 to be completed. The site (above) says: "Priority will be given to those streets where residents have organised themselves into a group of at least 6 people and we will distribute the limited number of bike hangars across the city as evenly and as fairly as possible. We will also create a waiting list of streets that shown interest in having a bike hangar, and of individuals looking to rent a space in one, so we will be ready to roll out more bike hangars if more money becomes available." I am keen that we should get a hangar nearby. But we need a group. If you are interested, please email Matthew at High.Kingsdown.Community.Assoc@gmail.com |
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