Parking your bike in residential areas
Residents can park their bikes in different ways in residential areas in The Hague. In a number of neighbourhoods the municipality has placed bicycle drums, residents can request bicycle stands and there are resident’s passes for public parking facilities and there are subsidy measures for private neighbourhood parking facilities.
Bicycle drums
The municipality has placed bicycle drums in a number of neighbourhoods in The Hague. A bicycle drum is a type of locker with space to store 4 bicycles. There are bicycle drums in the following neighbourhoods:
- Vruchtenbuurt
- Bezuidenhout-Oost
- Oostbroek
- Laakkwartier-West
- Regentesse- en Valkenboskwartier
- De Bras (complex on the Waterviolier)
- Geuzenkwartier
Do you have no space to store your bicycle? No new bicycle drums will be placed, but you can apply for a spot in a bicycle drum via the Begin external link: website of Biesieklette(External link), end external link. . If a bicycle drum has no space at the moment, you will be placed on the waiting list.
Bicycle stands
A U-shaped bicycle stand (fietsbeugel or ‘fietsnietje’) is a bicycle rack which residents can use to chain up their bike. Residents of an apartment complex without a basement storage unit or garage can ask the municipality for this type of bicycle rack. To apply for a bicycle stand and more information, go to Begin link: Request a bicycle stand, end link. .
Neighbourhood parking facilities
In a neighbourhood parking facility residents pay a monthly fee to safely store their bicycle. Look at Begin external link: buurtstallingdenhaag.nl(External link), end external link. for more information.
Resident’s pass for longer periods
Residents of The Hague can buy a resident’s pass for a fixed monthly subscription for the Biesieklette facilities in the Kranestraat, Raamstraat, Grote Markt and Nobelstraat. The pass allows you to park and pick up your bike during the facility’s hours of operation and to store it at night. The bicycle parking facilities at Driehoekjes and the Kranestraat are also neighbourhood facilities.
More information about the facilities can be found at Begin external link: www.biesieklette.nl(External link), end external link. (in Dutch).