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cycle2city new cycle cente

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check out this $6 million bike shower and change centre in Brisbane.

CYCLISTS will have to pay $5 a day plus a joining fee to use a $6 million bike shower and change centre in Brisbane.
The Cycle2Work facility in the King George Square bus station in Brisbane's CBD will also only be open from 6am to 8pm on weekdays.

Taxpayers handed over $6.4 million for the facility, a joint Brisbane City Council and State Government venture, which is due to open on June 2.

Premier Anna Bligh staged a walk-through at the centre with media in tow last week but failed to mention the daily charges, equivalent to a two-zone bus fare.

Keen cyclists Andrew Onley and John Hack, who run the operation, said they were unfazed by the cost which they said diverted 420 people from either driving or overcrowded public transport.

There were also health benefits for users which would offset the price taxpayers shelled out for its construction.

"That's $6 million well spent," Mr Onley said.

He said the construction costs were also a component of the Inner Northern Busway and, compared with driving and parking in the city, were significantly cheaper.

Initially the centre will not open weekends or public holidays but there was already strong demand from the public and council staff.

The facility can cater for 420 cyclists who can shower, change and park their bikes securely.

Mr Onley said between 3000 and 5000 people rode to work each day in the city.

He said it could be assumed those people already had change facilities at work, so the business would be luring people who had always wanted to ride but could not do so because of a lack of public showers.

Premier Anna Bligh last week announced a similar $2 million project for state public servants. The government would also try to attract private sector partners to own and operate a public facility, possibly in the Creek St precinct.

Brisbane City Council has thrown its weight behind the scheme and has boosted cycling even more with an increase to bike path funding and plans for a CBD bike rental scheme.

Mr Onley said about 2500 cyclists crossed the Goodwill Bridge into the city each morning and his business would be catering to a fraction of the commuting public.

Even so, he and Mr Hack were confident of even more growth and did not think the King George Square facility or "Bligh's bike shed" for public servants would be the last of their kind.
Bicycle riders to pay $5 a day for changing facilities | The Courier-Mail
cycle2city - Start work well.
 
sounds like a pretty good system but $5 a day sounds a bit pricey
 
looks like a pretty good idea , except work as showers so wouldn't have a need for such a thing
 
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