Could this be Dublin/Ireland’s answer to combatting bike theft?

by ConstantExpression88

25 comments
  1. I take it that you’re not familiar with Ireland’s underground bicycle racing scene?

  2. As if, we never get anything good. That’s all just mad stuff they do other places. Too convenient and useful for us.

  3. Sound yeah, estimated cost €1 million, 6 month job.

    10 years and €5 billion later, we might have a hole in the ground.

  4. I picture a scrote, with tyres instead of trainers, entering this thing and passing out free bikes to his acquaintances.

  5. This is cool, but the biggest issue I see if that you’re basically constructing a multi-storey underground building to store bikes with a single entry point.

    So like one of these could cost tens of millions to build and knowing DCC we’d end up with like one of them inconveniently located in the middle of the Phoenix Park.

  6. We all know whats going to happen, some drunk lads will take a bet to stay on the bike as it goes in

  7. It would probably end up costing more that the children’s hospital

  8. Even if it was cheap and we got planning and actually built it.

    Broken in a week guaranteed.

  9. More likely to be Ireland’s answer to the housing crisis.

  10. You don’t need a fancy robot. A security guard and a large room, just like a cloak room. You give the guard your bike and s/he puts it in the lockup. You return, present your ticket and they give you back your bike.

    The problem is that no one would pay the €1/hour.

  11. Even *if* it could be built and it worked, and was in a convenient place, few cyclists would pay for the parking fees and it would go largely unused until it fell into disrepair

  12. Well it would certainly lead to some interesting videos of scumbags getting chewed to pieces by getting caught in the inner workings

  13. There’s a bike cage in a lot of underground car parks in Dublin. On a private premises and usually with security. The cage usually requires a pin or fob to enter.

    I’ve had 2 bikes stolen from these cages.

    The only way to stop it is to mass produce an army of robogarda with their artificial intelligence powered by the DNA of Lugs Branigan

  14. We can barely build bus stops in this country. This would take 30 years to build in Ireland, and it would cost billions

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