Cycle parking guidance:

The solution is actually to demolish the supermarkets and rebuild with high density accessible housing, if it is near rail, otherwise make parks and lakes or farms!

"The air was still the street was empty except for the line of huge cars parked along the curb, glittering and grinning with chrome and polish and enamel. Paul had noticed already that in Los Angeles automobiles were a race apart, almost alive. The city was full of their hotels and beamy shops, their restaurants and nursing homes - immense expensive structures where they could be parked or polished or fed or cured of their injuries. They spoke, and had pets--stuffed dogs and monkeys looked out of their rear windows,toys and good-luck charms hung above their dashboards, and fur mils waved on their aerials. Their horns sang in varied voices.... few people were visible. The automobiles outnumbered  them ten to one. 

Paul imagined a tale in which it would be gradually revealed that these automobiles were the real inhabitants of the city, a secret master race which kept human beings for  its own greater convenience, or as pets" (Lurie 1986, 7, 232).

ABSTRACT

Urban planners typically set minimum parking requirements to meet the peak demand for parking at each land use, without considering either the price motorists pay for parking or the cost of providing the required parking spaces. By reducing the market price of parking, minimum parking requirements provide subsidies that inflate parking demand, and this inflated demand then leads to set higher minimum parking requirements.

Minimum parking requirements can increase development costs by more than 10 times. Eliminating minimum parking  requirements would reduce the cost of urban development improve urban design, reduce automobile dependency and restrain urban sprawl.

http://www.uctc.net/papers/351.pdf

I was in London on Pride Day, and foolishly went into that infamous money extraction machine called Foyles.  There a book insisted to me that it must be given a new home!  Jeff Speck Walkable City.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_speck_the_walkable_city?language=en

Tarmacing of roads was actually done first for cyclists?  That the suburban town plan of about 1910 actually sorted most accessibility issues with a mix of buses, trams and trains, horses, cycling and walking at a reasonably high density?

And looking seriously at the effects of cars.  It is as if the NHS is actually modelled on the idea of free at the point of use state provided car parking via planning!

Imagine all restaurants had to give free desserts to a minimum standard.

"Walkable City" has a chapter "Step 3 Get the parking right"

https://server1.tepper.cmu.edu/CMUPark/The-High-Cost-of-Free-Parking.pdf

https://www.itdp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Europes_Parking_U-Turn_I...

Seriously, why is the supermarket there, why is so much space wasted for cars?  Why concerns about cycle parking and ignoring the several herds of elephants here?

The solution is actually to demolish the supermarkets and rebuild with high density accessible housing, if it is near rail, otherwise make parks and lakes or farms!

"The air was still the street was empty except for the line of huge cars parked along the curb, glittering and grinning with chrome and polish and enamel. Paul had noticed already that in Los Angeles automobiles were a race apart, almost alive. The city was full of their hotels and beamy shops, their restaurants and nursing homes - immense expensive structures where they could be parked or polished or fed or cured of their injuries. They spoke, and had pets--stuffed dogs and monkeys looked out of their rear windows,toys and good-luck charms hung above their dashboards, and fur mils waved on their aerials. Their horns sang in varied voices.... few people were visible. The automobiles outnumbered  them ten to one. 

Paul imagined a tale in which it would be gradually revealed that these automobiles were the real inhabitants of the city, a secret master race which kept human beings for  its own greater convenience, or as pets" (Lurie 1986, 7, 232).

ABSTRACT

Urban planners typically set minimum parking requirements to meet the peak demand for parking at each land use, without considering either the price motorists pay for parking or the cost of providing the required parking spaces. By reducing the market price of parking, minimum parking requirements provide subsidies that inflate parking demand, and this inflated demand then leads to set higher minimum parking requirements.

Minimum parking requirements can increase development costs by more than 10 times. Eliminating minimum parking  requirements would reduce the cost of urban development improve urban design, reduce automobile dependency and restrain urban sprawl.

http://www.uctc.net/papers/351.pdf

I was in London on Pride Day, and foolishly went into that infamous money extraction machine called Foyles.  There a book insisted to me that it must be given a new home!  Jeff Speck Walkable City.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_speck_the_walkable_city?language=en

Tarmacing of roads was actually done first for cyclists?  That the suburban town plan of about 1910 actually sorted most accessibility issues with a mix of buses, trams and trains, horses, cycling and walking at a reasonably high density?

And looking seriously at the effects of cars.  It is as if the NHS is actually modelled on the idea of free at the point of use state provided car parking via planning!

Imagine all restaurants had to give free desserts to a minimum standard.

"Walkable City" has a chapter "Step 3 Get the parking right"

https://server1.tepper.cmu.edu/CMUPark/The-High-Cost-of-Free-Parking.pdf

https://www.itdp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Europes_Parking_U-Turn_I...

Seriously, why is the supermarket there, why is so much space wasted for cars?  Why concerns about cycle parking and ignoring the several herds of elephants here?

The solution is actually to demolish the supermarkets and rebuild with high density accessible housing, if it is near rail, otherwise make parks and lakes or farms!

"The air was still the street was empty except for the line of huge cars parked along the curb, glittering and grinning with chrome and polish and enamel. Paul had noticed already that in Los Angeles automobiles were a race apart, almost alive. The city was full of their hotels and beamy shops, their restaurants and nursing homes - immense expensive structures where they could be parked or polished or fed or cured of their injuries. They spoke, and had pets--stuffed dogs and monkeys looked out of their rear windows,toys and good-luck charms hung above their dashboards, and fur mils waved on their aerials. Their horns sang in varied voices.... few people were visible. The automobiles outnumbered  them ten to one. 

Paul imagined a tale in which it would be gradually revealed that these automobiles were the real inhabitants of the city, a secret master race which kept human beings for  its own greater convenience, or as pets" (Lurie 1986, 7, 232).

ABSTRACT

Urban planners typically set minimum parking requirements to meet the peak demand for parking at each land use, without considering either the price motorists pay for parking or the cost of providing the required parking spaces. By reducing the market price of parking, minimum parking requirements provide subsidies that inflate parking demand, and this inflated demand then leads to set higher minimum parking requirements.

Minimum parking requirements can increase development costs by more than 10 times. Eliminating minimum parking  requirements would reduce the cost of urban development improve urban design, reduce automobile dependency and restrain urban sprawl.

http://www.uctc.net/papers/351.pdf

I was in London on Pride Day, and foolishly went into that infamous money extraction machine called Foyles.  There a book insisted to me that it must be given a new home!  Jeff Speck Walkable City.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_speck_the_walkable_city?language=en

Tarmacing of roads was actually done first for cyclists?  That the suburban town plan of about 1910 actually sorted most accessibility issues with a mix of buses, trams and trains, horses, cycling and walking at a reasonably high density?

And looking seriously at the effects of cars.  It is as if the NHS is actually modelled on the idea of free at the point of use state provided car parking via planning!

Imagine all restaurants had to give free desserts to a minimum standard.

"Walkable City" has a chapter "Step 3 Get the parking right"

https://server1.tepper.cmu.edu/CMUPark/The-High-Cost-of-Free-Parking.pdf

https://www.itdp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Europes_Parking_U-Turn_I...

Seriously, why is the supermarket there, why is so much space wasted for cars?  Why concerns about cycle parking and ignoring the several herds of elephants here?

I don't like either of the linked guides (Cycling England and Sustrans) and suggest http://www.camcycle.org.uk/planning/guidance/

Discussion here might help - look for Christian Wendt, not sure if people need to join to see.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/slowbicyclemovement/

Discussion here might help - look for Christian Wendt, not sure if people need to join to see.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/slowbicyclemovement/