It’s perhaps not every day Chelmsford is mistaken for a town in the Netherlands, but the cycle parking at its railway station – and the numbers of bikes parked there – have encouraged the comparison.
In July 2013 1,000 bike parking spaces were installed at Chelmsford Station, the first of five CyclePoint facilities installed across Abellio Greater Anglia’s stations.
The train company is owned by Abellio which iis the international arm of the Dutch national rail operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen.
It says that Chelmsford station's cycle parking which, like other CyclePoint facilities includes changing rooms as well as cycle parking, is “regularly close to capacity”.
Cambridge Railway Station's new CyclePoint opens (+ gallery)
Paul Oxley, Greater Anglia Stakeholder Manager, said: "CyclePoint is a Dutch concept which we introduced for the first time in our region at Chelmsford.
“The facility has proved a great success, judging from the number of people using it, no doubt partly because the station is within a few minutes’ walk from the city centre. We are always keen to improve our integrated transport arrangements. Earlier this year we reached a landmark of cycle parking available at all of our stations."
Inevitably, someone is keen to point out it can’t be the Netherlands - because of the masonry.
As well as cycle parking, Abellio Greater Anglia offers or will offer CyclePark PLUS – secure fob-access cycle parking, at 18 of its stations, and Bike & Go at 14 stations, bicycles for hire for a passenger’s onward journey from their destination station.
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