Tooting: Over 100 new bike stands to appear across the borough

By Tommy Joyce

25th Nov 2021 | Local News

(Image: Josh Bean)
(Image: Josh Bean)

Over 100 new bike stands will be appearing across the borough, Wandsworth Council has announced.

Work will get underway shortly to install 115 bike stands in parks. These will provide more secure places for bikes to be stored while their owners visit local green spaces.

As well as improving security for existing visitors who arrive by bike, the aim is to encourage more people to use bicycles as a form of travel.

New stands will be appearing across Tooting. Including on Fishponds Playing Fields, Furzedown Rec and Upper Tooting Park.

Nearly half the new bike stands - 52 in total – will be positioned in Battersea Park which is the busiest and most popular of the borough's green spaces and where significant numbers of visitors currently choose to arrive by car.

In total 14 open spaces will have additional bike stands introduced including:

Fishponds Playing Fields

Furzedown Rec

Garratt Green

King George's Park

Godley Gardens

Coronation Gardens

Roehampton Playing Fields

Lavender Gardens

Upper Tooting Park

Shillington Park

Christchurch Gardens

Leader's Gardens

Putney Lower Common Cemetery

The design of each location will also allow some of the stands to be used by cargo bikes, which are increasing in popularity across the borough.

The council's director of environment and community services Paul Chadwick said: "We hope these additional bike stands will encourage more people to trave to our parks and green spaces on two wheels instead of four.

"We are taking action across the board to encourage people to travel in a more sustainable way and have just published our new walking and cycling strategy to make these environmentally friendly forms of travel safer, easier and more convenient.

"Improving cycle infrastructure is a key element of these plans and also of the council's climate change commitments to deliver a carbon-neutral town hall by 2030."

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