I sat and read through a Saarland story today. The city of Saarbrucken has a train station, and for years....various residents grumbled that they needed a bike-parking spot near it....where they get off the train and ride to 'work' in the city.
So the city dreamed up a bike-parking 'building' (2-story). Cost? 3.5-million Euro....of which around 2-million is fed-money.
How many parking spots? Well...144. Yeah....it comes up to about 24k Euro per parking spot.
Who signed off on this? Unknown. City council had to have some say in the matter.
About 12 years ago....I was on a trip up to Leiden, Netherlands. There at the train-station....they had this huge bike-storage building....probably for 1,200 bikes. It was impressive. Cost? I doubt that they spent more than a million.
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The old story of, look at all this money we can get.Let's spend it!
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