My town used to have problems with this up until a decade ago (sadly most people switched to cars by now).
We have several factories here and they all had to have their own bike parking lots which used to be a sight of its own, with bikes hanging from walls and even roofs sometimes.
Drivers hated it specially during end of shift times as the streets would get a massive amount of bikes and even if there were not that many of them, folks would cycle side by side with their friends and neighbors which slowed down the car traffic anyway.
Now that most people use cars, the dedicated parking areas that were used for bikes are mostly empty or at most been converted into a couple parking spaces for cars, which gets reserved for higher ranking employees only since its limited. There are no parking lots anywhere so people park their cars on the street.
Most streets had to be converted to maximize parking space, which took even more space than the side-by-side bikers used to and slowed traffic more as well. Food trucks were banned so it doesn’t take parking space. Traffic lights were all replaced by mini roundabouts (not sure what the name is in English). Between 5 and 7pm it takes several minutes to get a chance to cross a street now.
My town used to have problems with this up until a decade ago (sadly most people switched to cars by now).
We have several factories here and they all had to have their own bike parking lots which used to be a sight of its own, with bikes hanging from walls and even roofs sometimes.
Drivers hated it specially during end of shift times as the streets would get a massive amount of bikes and even if there were not that many of them, folks would cycle side by side with their friends and neighbors which slowed down the car traffic anyway.
Now that most people use cars, the dedicated parking areas that were used for bikes are mostly empty or at most been converted into a couple parking spaces for cars, which gets reserved for higher ranking employees only since its limited. There are no parking lots anywhere so people park their cars on the street.
Most streets had to be converted to maximize parking space, which took even more space than the side-by-side bikers used to and slowed traffic more as well. Food trucks were banned so it doesn’t take parking space. Traffic lights were all replaced by mini roundabouts (not sure what the name is in English). Between 5 and 7pm it takes several minutes to get a chance to cross a street now.