@lornaslater Bike parking can be relatively easy.

I once got pissed off about being unable to park in the city centre, so decided to do something about it, which I reckoned should be within my gift as transport portfolio holder on Cambridge City Council.

I asked around and blagged some money (this was in the days when finding a modest amount of money for a one-off capital project wasn't too hard - it was forever revenue spending that was impossible). I then told officers to find some space on the streets (they wanted a target and proposed 500, so I told them to look for 1,000 as I didn't want them stopping when they'd got to 500).

There was, as you'd expect, a certain amount of hassle, including things like negotiating with the county council over loss of revenue from on-street parking spaces and the commuted sum for maintenance, that sort of thing, BAU really, and not everything in the project ended up being delivered. But I ended up providing 600 new bike parking spaces.

So, it can be done. People just have to vote for the right councillors. Rather than, as two thirds of voters choose, not bothering to vote at all in local elections.