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Dublin City Council is looking for candidates to trial a €5,280 bike box on the streets of Dublin with a view to rolling out more of them.
The beta project will involve a bike box, or hangar,
suitable for the secure on-street parking of cargo bikes or other non-standard
sized bikes.
The council proposes to use a Velo Boxx hangar to trial the concept. It is large enough to accommodate two large cargo bikes, which are becoming increasingly popular as commercial or delivery 'vehicles' in the city.
The council has already rolled out some bike bunkers,
which are boxes installed on the streets of residential areas in Dublin that
can be used by several local residents to park their bikes.
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However, the proposal to trial the Velo Boxx will target cargo bike owners or people interested in using cargo bikes but who have not yet done so because they don’t have storage or parking options.
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The box the council plans to trial is 2.7m in length and will be supplied without bike racks inside. Because cargo bikes, and other non-standard bikes, come in different shapes and dimensions they are unsuited for a ‘one size fits all’ rack.
The Velo Boxx company produces boxes or hangars in different sizes to accommodate one to five bikes at a time. Based in Aalst, East Flanders, the company also produces hangars - effectively bike sheds - that hold 20 bikes and other hangars for cargo bikes and motorbikes.
You can register your interest in the first cargo bike box due to be trialed in Dublin by contacting Dublin City Council’s beta projects website or the beta project team's dedicated Twitter account.
Velo Boxx produce bike boxes in different sizes that can hold 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 20 bikes. The bike box that holds one bike (top right) costs almost €3,500 while the box, or shed, which holds 20 bikes (bottom photo) costs €16,635. The Belgian company has sold them to householders, businesses, schools and councils, among others
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