Video: Amsterdam’s largest bike garage to open under Central Station canal; 7,000 spots
2 years, 2 months ago

Video: Amsterdam’s largest bike garage to open under Central Station canal; 7,000 spots

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Amsterdam’s biggest bicycle garage, located under Central Station on Stationplein, will open next week. “The tour boats will soon literally sail above the bicycles.” https://www.facebook.com/gemeenteamsterdam/videos/747526772962330 Building the bicycle garage in such a heavily-trafficked area was quite the challenge, the municipality of Amsterdam said. The Stationplein bicycle garage will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Once the Stationplein bicycle garage opens, the existing two NS parking facilities at the station building will also be free for the first 24 hours.

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Video: Amsterdam opens part of new IJ River promenade, 4,000-space bike garage
2 years, 1 month ago

Video: Amsterdam opens part of new IJ River promenade, 4,000-space bike garage

NL Times  

For several years, the space between the bicycle path behind Amsterdam’s Central Station and the IJ River has been obscured by construction material and fencing. A portion of that was cleared away this week as the City of Amsterdam revealed part of a new 6,000 square meter promenade with a perfect, unobstructed view facing the river and Amsterdam-Noord. The city …

Amsterdam Unveils Its Largest-ever Bike Garage. It's Underwater
2 years, 2 months ago

Amsterdam Unveils Its Largest-ever Bike Garage. It's Underwater

News 18  

Plagued by ever-shrinking space to park its hundreds of thousands of bicycles, Amsterdam opened Wednesday the first of its largest-ever bicycle parking complexes, built underwater in a pioneering engineering project. “Together the shelters will be the largest in the city,” the Amsterdam municipality said, with the Open Haven Front storage able to take 7,000 bicycles and the IJ-side site around …

Amsterdam’s largest bicycle parking opens under Central Station
2 years, 2 months ago

Amsterdam’s largest bicycle parking opens under Central Station

NL Times  

State Secretary Vivianne Heijnen officially opened Amsterdam’s largest bicycle garage under Amsterdam Central Station on Thursday. That's why we invest in easy, safe and secure bike parking at railway stations, says @vivianneheijnen at the opening of the new Amsterdam bike parking. Over the past four years, the city also renovated scaffolding and bridges, widened footpaths and bicycle paths, replaced tram …

World's second biggest bike garage opens in The Hague
4 years, 8 months ago

World's second biggest bike garage opens in The Hague

NL Times  

The second largest bicycle parking garage in the world opened in The Hague on Wednesday. The bike garage on Koningin Julianaplein, at Den Haag Central Station, has space for nearly 8 thousand bicycles. Seventeen well known buildings in The Hague are depicted in the garage's glass walls, including the Ridderzaal and the Vredespaleis. The massive parking garage is also part …

World’s biggest bike garage opens in Utrecht with 12,500 parking spaces
5 years, 7 months ago

World’s biggest bike garage opens in Utrecht with 12,500 parking spaces

NL Times  

The largest bicycle parking garage in the world is opening in Utrecht on Monday. With 12,656 parking spaces, including 480 spaces for larger or oddly shaped bicycles like cargo bikes and tandems, the parking facility on Utrecht's station square easily breaks the previous record, held by a bike parking garage in Tokyo with 9,400 parking spaces, Trouw reports. Parking in …

New bicycle parking planned for Amsterdam CS; to hold 4,000 bikes
8 years ago

New bicycle parking planned for Amsterdam CS; to hold 4,000 bikes

NL Times  

The municipality of Amsterdam is planning to build a new large bicycle parking garage on the IJ, near Amsterdam Central Station that will be able to hold over 4 thousand bicycles. The new parking garage will be located underground and will replace the rusty bicycle platform on the northwest side and the current bicycle ferry directly behind the train station. …

Underground parking for 7,000 bikes opening at Amsterdam Centraal
10 years, 1 month ago

Underground parking for 7,000 bikes opening at Amsterdam Centraal

NL Times  

Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan and the city's aldermen want to build a large, underground bicycle parking garage for 7,000 bikes on the south side of Amsterdam Centraal Station. Cost of the new garage has not yet been revealed, but it would likely fall under the Long-Term Cycle Plan announced last year, in which the city said it intends …

A'dam to spend €200m on bike parking, paths
11 years, 1 month ago

A'dam to spend €200m on bike parking, paths

NL Times  

The City of Amsterdam will invest a total of €200 million in the Long-Term Cycle Plan 2012-2016, to combat bicycle related parking issues and improve the cycle network in the City. Overcrowded bike racks near Central Stations and narrow bike lanes, trying to digest an increasing volume of bicycle traffic, bear witness of cycling being a popular, cheap, and important …

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