The Madrid City Council has announced the creation of 336 new specific car parks for motorcycles in the city. A news that Anesdor, the National Association of Companies in the Two-Wheel Sector, considers positive but insufficient since the degree of coverage for specific parking of these vehicles remains very low. In Madrid there are currently 12.443 spaces for motorcycles, a figure still far from the 25.000 to which the City Council has committed for 2023. In the city, 14% of registered vehicles are motorcycles: 269.000 units.
In the districts in which the SER zone is implanted in Madrid with 1.511.652m 2 of surface dedicated to on-street parking and only 1,8% dedicated to motorcycles, around 10.000 spaces.
If the same proportion of parking surface to the motorcycle that it represents in the park (14%), that is, 211.631m 2 , there will be 70.500 spaces available (assuming 3m 2 per space), about 60.000 more than the current ones, reaching a coverage of 27% of the motorcycle fleet.
Citizens who travel by motorcycle do not have a real enough parking alternative, so they are forced to park on the sidewalks, the place that has historically been granted. As a medium-term objective, Anesdor considered it necessary to reach a parking coverage that would allow all the parking to be on the road, something that is still very far away according to the figures.
On the other hand, from the association it is considered that these spaces should be implanted for motorcycles in a homogeneous way: before and after pedestrian crossings, at crossroads, to improve visibility and, in general, in those usable spaces of the street. road such as the outer areas of some roundabouts.
Despite the fact that the city maintains this lack in relation to parking spaces, the Employers' Association points out that, although it is reduced in number, the development of new parking lines for motorists is good news, as have initiatives such as the advanced stopping area before traffic lights, the removal of dangerous shark fins from multiple streets or a pilot project such as the 'Avanza Moto' lane on Avenida de Asturias.
