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Home Page >> About Us >> Products >> Rent a Locker >> How To Order >> News >> Links >> Free Pic >> Down Loads >>	Evening Standard June 2000 Sainsbury's peddles bike storage idea Supermarkets giant Sainsbury's is shopping around for builders, housing managers and anyone else willing to support the use of cycle storage lockers. Retailers know that one line of resistance to the opening of new stores is the charge that it will increase traffic congestion, noise and fumes. So Sainsbury's is busily encouraging bikes. It is installing an average of six BikeAway cycle parking lockers for employees' use at each of its 400-odd supermarkets at a rate of up to 50 stores a year, and is looking at ways in which it could offer the same service to customers. But it is no use offering bikes a safe haven at the supermarkets if the employee or customer has nowhere to keep their machine at home, says Sainsbury's transport development manager Mike Turner. So he is pressing housing professionals to turn more car parking spaces over to bikes. He also says there is scope to make cyclists of people who do not have cars. Sainsbury's sees mileage in "bike boxes" now that their prices are coming down. It is buying BikeAways - tall thin lockers in which the cycle is stashed standing on its rear heel. "Anyone trying to bash their way into a BikeAway would drown out a nearby steel band," says their inventor, Jason Hamlyn. An engineer, Hamlyn worked with Westwood Automations in Plymouth, and now has the factory building the lockers to order for him. BikeAways cost £375 each, with installation included if you put in an order for 10. A claim that Hamlyn and Turner hope will intrigue land-hungry housing professionals is that 12 bike lockers can be fitted into parking space for two cars. Parking for 30 - six cars and 24 cyclists - can be had for the equivalent of eight car spots, they argue. A leaflet that Turner sends out to housing types shows a photograph of one bike whose owner has to keep it on the open balcony of a first floor flat, a storage space that is as unsafe as it is inelegant, as well as bad for the bike. "What is the use of our providing destination parking if the would-be cyclist is deterred from using a bike in the first place because he or she has no way of keeping a bike safe and dry at home?" he asks. Turner himself is a bike man. He has a Raleigh Pioneer 21-speed affair that can go on or off-road, and if he doesn't use it to get to Sainsbury's London headquarters in Southwark, that is because he lives 120 miles away in Templecombe, Somerset. He can live there because most of his time is spent on the road visiting Sainsbury's stores around the country. When Turner does visit the head office, there's a nine-mile drive to the station, and he can bike that as soon as Railtrack finishes its own talks on bike security. But the stores group But the stores group's head office already has 35 sheffield stands for bikes in an underground car park at Stamford Street, and there are also 24 showers so cyclists can be nice to know during working hours. "We have also planned bike lockers into the current development of head office," Turner says.
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