Heads up to any bikers - Motorcycle parking opposite Peace Gardens

[Panthera Leo 10]

Regardless of rights and wrongs (personally though not a motorcyclist I think secure provision for motorcycles is sadly lacking) it seems that there is a focus on this

 

Spotted this on the cycle parking at the bottom of Fargate today, advising to call 101 and report any motorcycles parked there.

 

http://i49.tinypic.com/i1xlcz.jpg

 

LOOKED official (can't confirm, or if someone has had them made up)

 

 

Now I'm all for this, I just wish they'd do it about burger vans blocking the cycle racks too - but there ought to be more motorcycle parking too. If I did have a motorbike which would still cause less congestion than taking a single or two-occupant car, I'd probably still take the car, just because of security.

[Reesh2052 10]

if bikers were to pay for on street parking how could it work? we can't display a ticket anywhere.

 

I've used parking spaces in town before and had my ticket stolen about 7 times in the past two years, also had them stolen in Bakewell. What l do nowadays is take a photo of my ticket in place on the bike. A warden in bakewell told me even with that evidence l could still get a ticket!!! What do you do?

[peak4 279]

I've used parking spaces in town before and had my ticket stolen about 7 times in the past two years, also had them stolen in Bakewell. What l do nowadays is take a photo of my ticket in place on the bike. A warden in bakewell told me even with that evidence l could still get a ticket!!! What do you do?

 

Personally I write my registration number on the ticket in a black spirit pen, then take a photo, just in case.

I've not has one stolen since I started marking them. (Touch Wood )

[altus 540]

Personally I write my registration number on the ticket in a black spirit pen, then take a photo, just in case.

I've not has one stolen since I started marking them. (Touch Wood )

You've just have to hope you don't get a new ticket because your existing one has been defaced.

[peak4 279]

Maybe a question for Planner1;

 

There are a number of motorcycle parking bays scattered around the city centre, though the council does seem to be gradually removing them.

e.g. the one at the corner of Rockingham St & Division St has gone, along with one on St James St and one down the side of the old Woolworths' shop off The Moor.

Is it possible to get a definitive list of the remaining ones from anywhere?

 

For example there is one at each of the following locations

 

Outside National Tyres at the end of The Moor

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=53.375256,-1.47549&spn=0.005037,0.016158&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=53.375256,-1.47549&panoid=6UUB4PFMXt4-_vj0mtDaIg&cbp=12,102.03,,0,0

 

Bottom of Trafalgar St off Charter Row

http://goo.gl/maps/uXfws

 

Cross Burgess St behind Coles

http://goo.gl/maps/UBYud

[alas_alas 10]

Have the cycle racks by the Crucible now been cleared for motorcycle parking?

 

Walked by on Friday only to see that every single rack was filled by a motorbike. That doesn't really seem fair to me. It's not exactly an incentive to cyclists to have allocated parking used in this way, especially when, as I mentioned earlier, bicycles cannot be locked 'stand-alone', whereas, like cars, motorbikes can be, and most often are, parked without having to be hitched to a rack.

[Grazzer 10]

I have heard a rumour that Motorcycles are being given parking tickets for parking near the Peace Gardens near the Pansonic shop, anyone heard anything?

[molly44 10]

i am not a motorcyclist, but i park my bicycle around that area, and i have noticed that usually i have to pick my way through motorbikes parked in cycle places. but recently they have been empty of motorbikes. there must be a reason, maybe thats it, that their issuing parking tickets.

[Ghostrider 11]

Its true, take a look here :

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1091294&highlight=motorcycle+parking

[Grazzer 10]

Sneaky beggers, is that the same at the Crucible as well, any ideas where to park my motorbike safely in town?

[alas_alas 10]

Sneaky beggers

 

On the contrary, I think it's motorcyclists who have been 'sneaky' in this, by using up cycle racks designed for bicycles, not motorbikes. So it's about time the distinction was made clear.

[tomyqss 10]

on my logbook the taxation class says bicycle