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Home Page >> About Us >> Products >> Rent a Locker >> How To Order >> News >> Links >> Free Pic >> Down Loads >>	Parking News September 2000 New Concepts in Providing Secure Cycle Parking Facilities If plantation owners quake at the thought of a visit from the Man from Del Monte, they should try having their commercial future decided by a delegation of hard to please schoolchildren. That's what happened to Jason Hamlyn, inventor of the BikeAway cycle parking locker, who thought he was home and dry when he managed to satisfy the very exacting design demands of Sainsbury's buyer and the transport expert at his local authority: " Plymouth City Council said they would buy the first 50 BikeAways but only if the pupils of Estover Community College wanted them", said Jason. "The pupils turned up en masse at the factory one day, poked and prodded at the prototype, then gave me the third degree with a barrage of questions and demands that astonished me. But I'm glad they did. Their input, added to that of Mike Turner, Sainsbury's Transport Development Manager, and Phil Rosindale, Plymouth's Senior Transport Officer, helped me transform BikeAway from being merely a competitive new product into one that it is today." Jason's approach of asking the end users what they wanted from his product at the design stage has paid off. In less than a year, BikeAway has been bought by five local authorities and has been installed in schools, workplaces and at bus and railway stations all over the country. Connex, the rail operator, has ordered 174 BikeAway's for 19 of its railway stations in the South East and has already decided to re-order. 36 BikeAway's are also already in use on Great North Western stations in the Stockport and Greater Manchester area. BikeAway's apparent popularity may be partly due to the fact that it has, claim the makers, the smallest footprint of any secure cycle parking locker on the market and is a third of the price of rivals. It also has solid panel sides and is galvanised to a much higher specification than usual so that it will not rust. It can be fitted easily on uneven ground, has a master-key system which enables locker providers to make security checks while leaving the cyclists own padlock in place and is virtually maintenance-free. It is also very strong. To demonstrate this Jason borrowed his mothers Renault Clio, saying that he was going shopping, and fork -lifted it on top of two BikeAways! Sainsbury Sainsbury's too are impressed with the product and have ordered BikeAways for all of their 400 supermarkets as they come up for refurbishment. And Mike Turner of Sainsbury's made headlines recently when he announced an initiative to encourage housing providers to offer cycle storage to tenants and home-buyers on the grounds that there is little point in providing workplace and destination parking if the would-be cyclist cannot store a bike securely at home in the first place. His plea has caught the attention of Nick Watson of the Metropolitan Housing Association in London, who hopes to incorporate cycle lockers into new build housing throughout the capital. He has already worked out that by installing these and offering fewer car parking spaces to new tenants or buyers, Metropolitan will not only save money and valuable land, but it will also be taking up the Government's challenge to encourage the switch to cycling by removing the most quoted main obstacle - the lack of secure cycle parking. Schools, too, are cottoning on to the Sustrans message that cycling to class can dramatically reduce the dreaded school-run. One school with just 50 cycle lockers can save 500 car journeys a week, double that if pupils go home for lunch. Now that's food for thought.
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