Parking near Moorgate area (London)

[TheArchitect]

Company I work for are relocating to the Moorgate area (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/26+Wilson+St,+London+EC2A/@51.5214266,-0.0854642,19z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48761cae60f076c5:0x4dafe708efcc330c)

There are plenty of on-street bike bays in the area but what are my free off-street parking options around there?

I know of the City of London carpark at London Wall but that's a 10+ minutes walk away. Any others?

Also, does anyone know if NCP do season tickets for bikes? If so, how much? The Finsbury Square NCP charges £6 per day.

thanks
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[TheArchitect]

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[TheArchitect]

[NJD]

Visit NCP Birmingham and you'll understand my comments. Working CCTV? Say what now.

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[woo]

london wall has bars that you can lock your bike to so worth the 10 min walk
id rather that than leave it chain to nothing
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[Londoner2015]

How busy do the bike bays get? Is it realistic to always park in the same spot? If it is, how about buying a big, heavy chain from Almax or Pragmasis and leave it there, chained to a lamp post/pole, etc? Ie using it only when you park the bike there, not carrying it around. These chains are not cheap but worth every penny. The 16mm and 19mm chains are impossible to cut with bolt croppers. The 13mm chains (only Pragmasis sells them, Almax doesn't) can theoretically be cut with bolt croppers but you need a big guy with big croppers. The 13mm chain also come with a noose, which almost doubles the usable length.

[TheArchitect]

thanks for replies all..

I don't mind the 10 min walk but it can get a bit labouring sometimes, especially when it's raining hard.

Some of the bike bays in the area have dedicated pole things to lock the bikes to so that's a plus. But I'm willing to pay a small premium for the NCP with is 3 min walk away, just trying to find out what that premium will be.
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[gorillaonabik...]

Do not pay. It is free to park motorcycles in car parks, bike bays etc... in the City of London.

Closest are these car parks with free motorcycle parking: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/transport-and-streets/parking/where-to-park/car-parks/Pages/London-Wall-car-park.aspx

Q-Parks are all free to motorcycles and there is one at Tower Hill which is still closer than the nearest NCP.

Other options are:

- Free parking in any motorbike bay in the City of London.
- There are posts or those little rings in the ground at a few bike parking spaces.
- Find a regular and daisy chain.
- Private land: For a good ten years, I parked on private land. I do it now as I live in zone 1. In one case, in Holborn, I parked there for about a year on the outside of a car park. Because the land was private, the bike couldn't be ticketed.
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[TheArchitect]

[esullivan]

I work right near there (Bloomberg). There are a about 60-70 along Finsbury Square (basically, next to your office) and about 100 along Finsbury Circus (about 5-minute walk away), although some of those are blocked off because of Crossrail work. Both fill up by about 8:30-ish, though, and only a small number have either a bar or ring anchor to chain to, so you'd have to be really early to get one of those. Bikes do get stolen there once in a while, but it hasn't happened (to my knowledge) in the three years or so that I parked there. I just used a disc lock.

For the last couple of years, I've been in a building on Finsbury Circus that Bloomberg is renting to take the overflow until they finish their new headquarters further in the city (Walbrook). This building just happens to have motorcycle parking underneath (with a full-time security guard). I parked outside in Finsbury Circus for about six months before I discovered this, so it's worth asking about.

In about a year, when we move to Walbrook, I'll be in the same position as you -- both of these areas are quite a walk away from the office. The nearest ones are NCP (£6 a day -- still cheaper than the tube from Zone 5), so I'd be interested to hear how it goes for you.
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[Tierbirdy]

Download this app onto your phone - https://www.appyparking.com/src/app.html

Never struggle to find parking in London again.

Used to be a total ballache as I worked all over, various boroughs all having different rules regarding bike parking in car bays etc, or hunting through the local council's website to try and find bike parking list. This app does it all, tells you exactly where you can park, what the operating times are, how much it will cost, and whether its free for bikes or not. Some bays it lists whether they have ground anchors for bikes too, though thats not always accurate as I think it has to be added by users rather than part of the app itself

[TheArchitect]

[esullivan]

[Undinist]

Don't remove your plate so you can park on a yellow line. It works in the boroughs but in the City there's no tolerance for it and your bike goes to the pound fairly rapidly. Friend of mine lost his ZX10 that way - the bays in Finsbury Sq were full so he parked a little outside the bay and took the plate off. Because of work commitments he was unable to get to the pound before the fines and storage charges had risen to somewhere near the value of the bike. So he wrote it off and bought a 'Blade.

[TheArchitect]

[Undinist]

It's a shame really. In the rest of London you don't need parking apps or bays or anything, just velcro on your plate.

[Derivative]

I'd ask my work to pay for parking, or pay me enough to live around the corner.

Current thinking is that it'd take nine figures to make me do the North Circular in rush hour again every day.