# Somewhere to leave the bike

> Twenty-four thousand places to lock up, and only some of them covered.

- Category: Transport
- Cadence: annual
- Status: Published on a annual cadence.
- Dataset key: `cycle-parking-points`
- Source: [TfL Unified API](https://cycling.data.tfl.gov.uk/)
- Licence: TfL Open Data Licence — [terms](https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/terms-and-conditions/transport-data-service)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/somewhere-to-leave-the-bike](https://londongraph.com/g/somewhere-to-leave-the-bike)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/somewhere-to-leave-the-bike](https://londongraph.com/data/somewhere-to-leave-the-bike)

## Methodology

Every cycle parking location in TfL's Cycling Infrastructure Database, a street-by-street survey. Colour separates secure parking from merely covered from an open stand, because the three are not the same offer to anyone leaving a bike for a working day.

## Visualisations

- [Map](https://londongraph.com/g/somewhere-to-leave-the-bike): Twenty-four thousand places to lock up, and only some of them covered.
- [Hotspots](https://londongraph.com/g/somewhere-to-leave-the-bike?view=hotspots): Compare the same measure geographically.
- [Breakdown](https://londongraph.com/g/somewhere-to-leave-the-bike?view=breakdown): Summarise the categories represented by the mapped records without loading every coordinate.

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