Greater Anglia customers are set to benefit from 3,500 new cycle parking spaces.
The train operator’s Cambridge station will gain 3,000 of these new cycle parking spaces, in proposals which will see the largest CyclePoint ever created in the UK with facilities for repair, hire and cycle sales all included in the project.
Funding from the Department for Transport will augment funding already pledged by CB1 developer Brookgate, as part of a wider station upgrade delivered in partnership with Network Rail.
Greater Anglia’s Chelmsford station will be the location for a 500 space CyclePoint, which will include maintenance, information and cycle hire facilities.
The train operator has already dedicated some of its own funding to this project, which will be augmented with contributions from the DfT and Essex County Council.
A further, innovative scheme to improve cycle facilities for Greater Anglia customers will be the introduction of PlusBike cycle hire schemes at 15 stations across the Greater Anglia network.
