This week, the City of Rotterdam opened a beautiful new parking structure for 900 bicycles in the city center—named "De Koopgoot"—which will allow visitors to store their bikes close to shops, restaurants, and cultural institutions in a free, supervised, and sheltered facility.🧵

Rotterdam has grown cycling by 45% in the past decade—good for a 28% modal share—which has put increased pressure on its public space and led to the creation of a Bicycle Parking Strategy in 2021, which called for the investment of €45 million to build 34,000 new spaces by 2040.

Have you shared this with @costasamaras.bsky.social for his IRA3 list? Want it bad.

The lightning is horrible though. Sorry 🙈

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Google Translate first told me "Fietsenstalling De Koopgoot" means "After the child is born", but then said "Fietsenstalling" is "bike shed" and "Koopgoot" is "shopping gutter" and then changed it's answer on the whole thing to "Bicycle shed De Koopgoot". Is it "bicycle storage under shopping"? 😆