The metropolitan area of Lyon, dubbed “Grand Lyon”, unveiled 227 secured parking spaces for bicycles beginning of March 2012 in partnership with the Lyon Parc Auto dealership, in order to increase biking as a means of urban transportation.

Born of a public-private partnership, the aforementioned parties have invested a total of €1.2 million. Close to 1 350 parking spaces should be inaugurated by 2015.

These spaces, located in existing car parks, will facilitate the parking of bicycles, a problem often voiced by cyclists, while “Grand Lyon” hopes to see the use of bicycles tripled in the metropolitan area by 2020.