Ealing Council has said it has now installed the 25 new bike hangars it promised to residents in the borough as part of its £10million investment to supporting active travel across the seven towns.
The hangars, which cost 70p a month to cyclists, are said to be the cheapest storage in London for bikes and goes towards the council target of installing at least 150 hangars by 2026.
The 25 new hangars installed follow a consultation with residents in December 2022, in which 349 people responded. The council said the results of the consultation have helped to determine where the hangars should be located.
The full list of hangars are:
Balfour Road W13 – two locations
Bayham Road W13
Brisbane Road W13
Comer Crescent UB2
Cotton Avenue W3
Dabbs Hill Lane UB5
Darwin Road W5 – two locations
Derwent Road W5
Dorset Road W5
Framfield Road W7
Grove Road W3 – two locations
Hillcrest Road W3
Lady Margaret Road UB1
Leythe Road W3
Myrtle Road W3 – two locations
Ruislip Road East UB6
Stephenson Street NW10
Temple Road W4
The Ridings W5
Valetta Road W3
Waldegrave Road W5
West End Road UB1
Woodhurst Road W3
Woodstock Ave W13
Councillor Deirdre Costigan, Ealing Council deputy leader and cabinet member for climate change said: “Bike hangars are a great solution to keeping your bike safe and now it will cost you only 70p per month, reduced from £6, making Ealing bike hangars the cheapest in London.”
Councillor Peter Mason, Leader of Ealing Council added: “We have installed 25 new bike hangars across the borough, providing safe and affordable storage for your bike. Helping more people to take up active travel is a really important part of our commitment to tackling air pollution and the climate crisis.”
Ealing Council said more hangars will be installed in the borough by the end of the summer season. In a statement, it said: “Watch out for the next 25 bike hangars that are going to be installed across the borough by the end of this summer.”
But others in Ealing have said that the roll out of hangars across Ealing and its seven towns has been “disappointingly slow”.
Neil Reynolds, chair of Ealing Green Party told EALING.NEWS: “The placement of additional bike hangars is welcome. The pace of delivery is disappointingly slow however. This amounts to one hanger for every 13,000 residents.”
