Utrecht to build world's biggest bike park - for 12,500 bikes

DutchNews.nl, Sunday 27 April 2014

An artists impression of the completed bike park. Illustration: BAM

Building group BAM has been contracted by Utrecht city council to start building what it claims will be the world's biggest bike park - a three storey contruction with space for 12,500 bicycles.

The initial contract, to build the first phase of the bike park, is worth €8m. The total cost of the project is €48m, BAM says.

The underground bike park will form part of the redevelopment of the area around Utrecht's central station and will be completed by 2018.