On my recent visit to Holland I saw the biggest bike rack I've ever seen:
As you can see, this 3 storey monster has quite a few bikes stored on it. It's right next to Amsterdam Centraal railway station and has access to the local network on segregated cycle lanes.
I admit, it's needed in a bike mad and car unfriendly city such as Amsterdam, but compare this to some of the low security and inconvenient bike "racks" in the UK. Unused, unsafe and insecure. One or two projects look OK in the UK such as the Leeds bike hub or the secrure bike storage on Merseyrail, but car is king in the UK which in the last week or panic buying of fuel isn't looking good for the future.
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