More bike parking than car parking spaces were added in the City of Melbourne last year

More bicycle parking spaces than car parking spaces were created in new buildings within the City of Melbourne for the first time last year, council data shows.

UEM Sunrise international business director Ong Chee Wei
at Aurora Melbourne Central's 700-plus capacity bike locker. 

A total of 3797 bike spaces were added in developments completed within the city in 2019, compared with 3575 car parks.

Since 2015, when the council started keeping track of this information, 15,904 new bike spaces and 22,316 new car spaces have been completed in private developments such as apartment blocks and office buildings. This figure does not include on-street parking or bike hoops on footpaths.

Read the story from The Age by Craig Butt - “More bike parking than car parking spaces were added in the City of Melbourne last year.”