What? No bike racks?

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So, as my previous film reviews might have suggested, I went to the cinema today and had a bit of a nasty surprise. For what seems like an eternity, Cardiff has been one massive building site. While I've not explored much (read: any) of the new shopping areas, the building work is finally folding away from around the cinema. Now the new car park is open and has a new entrance, there are nice wide roads with bicycle lanes that have just been built but nowhere anywhere near the cinema is there anywhere to chain up your bike. There used to be railings (y'know, the kind that are supposed to stop you running into the road), but they are gone and there's nearly nowhere to put your bike except for the odd lamp-post and a little area just around the corner that I found that is less than favourable since it only really holds a single bike.

I mean, seriously, what the hell? When they were doing all the work up on Clifton Street making it one-way, they put in plenty of bike racks but outside a cinema? I mean, y'know, a cinema!? It gets better, of course. Chatting with one of the ticket guys about the fact that there were no bike racks, he added that the new developments have left the cinema without a loading area (and they have deliveries every day... well, it's a cinema!).

It's one thing to complain about an absense of this or that for city planning that happened decades ago, but for a completely brand new city planning to miss these things... Really, what the hell?