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Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh Live
National
Donald Turvill

All the Edinburgh streets set to get new secure bike storage under expansion of scheme

Secure bike storage is set to be rolled out on dozens more streets across Edinburgh, more than doubling the number of hangars currently available.

The council has been inundated with requests for the scheme to be brought to more locations with over 1,500 people on the waiting list for spaces.

Calls to reduce the monthly £6 cost of accessing the units have suggested raising parking permit charges to subsidise those on lower incomes - a move criticised by one councillor as "pitting drivers against cyclists".

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