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Secure storage is fundamental to encouraging commuters to cycle. Lockers are seen more and more on railway stations, major employment sites, at government offices and at hospitals. Health promotion managers, facility managers, and transport planning officers will not persuade the public to switch to cycling unless they make provisions on their own facilities.

Six double access lockers for twelve bicycles.

Quality Cycle-Safe™ bicycle parking keeps the bike footprint outside the building where it belongs and cyclists conduct is improved when outside storage is convenient. Locker programs work best if they can be rented or assigned to specific cyclists for defined lengths of time. This allows the locker owners to target the regular, committed cyclists. Systems which rely on cyclists to provide the locks are only as secure as the lock itself. Facility managers like the fact that they can provide a service that can be booked along with the annual lease. The security aspect of having advanced payment by check or credit card record of the user, and user agreement form, makes rental profitable and easy to manage. The highly regarded Cycle-Safe product is made in America of advanced composite materials including a full integral lock, resistant to picking and drilling. This durability clearly demonstrates that organizations are providing a quality bicycle- parking facility, and are taking cycling and car-dependency reduction seriously.

A Smart Move for Business: • The best answer to fears of litigation, dirt, grease, scratched walls and elevators, annoying the Fire Department, and having to pay the dry cleaning bill of someone who gets dirty from brushing up against a bike – is quality bicycle parking. • Bicycles chained haphazardly to railings, posts or lamp columns can be dangerous and inconvenient to pedestrians, particularly visually impaired people. Proper bicycle parking can reduce this risk, as well as removing unsightly clutter. • For the cyclist, carefully planned cycle parking facilities can reduce the damage to or theft of increasingly more expensive bicycles & bicycle components. This improved protection and security can do much to raise confidence in making journeys by cycle and also make bicycling more visible as a potential form of transport.