UPDATE: SORRY FOR THE TROUBLE FOLKS, THIS IS NOT THE EXPECTED CYCLE-HUB, BUT TEMPORARY PARKING UNTIL THE HUB IS DELIVERED IN MARCH 2014
Not so much a bang as a whimper of publicity to introduce this facility:
Poster on hoarding by former cycle park
Only one way in and out – officially, anyway
Entrance
Two CCTV cameras and visibility through the bars should hopefully deter the casual thief
Double-deckers in use 21/7/12
Some guidance on how to use it:
Up and away
Stupidity is just around the corner
No left turn - to the nearest London Cycle Network route
Exempting cyclists from this one-way system, so that they could cycle to the London Cycle Network routes just around the corner, is a no-brainer – which is possibly why it hasn’t been designed and put in place from day one.
No contraflow? Why can't cyclists cycle out this way?
So close and yet so far
The official exit
Want to ride to Addiscombe? Follow that bus - on no account turn left on exiting the cycle park
£200,000 gone on 40 spaces (minus the spaces they’ve removed on the other side of station), two cctv cameras and a gate? And is the majority of this new hub not comprised by a car park? I’ll check out tomorrow but if I’m right, it looks like the cycle money has been spent on a car park with some cycle parking. FOI request coming up…
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/ is pretty good for that sort of thing