IF YOU WANT a brand new bike bunker on your street, you can now ask Dublin City Council for one.

The council is going to provide around 300 bunkers across the city for people to store their bikes, ten years after a pilot scheme for the programme was first trialled.

Bike bunkers are locked bike shelters for city residents to communally store their bikes at the cost of €100 per year per bike - twice the cost of a residential parking permit.

If you want one near your home, you can now fill out this form to register your interest, and the council will consider your request.

While the hope is that bike bunkers can one day be provided anywhere inside Dublin City Council’s administrative area, it’s currently only considering registrations of interest “inside the canals”. You can see which areas are including in the map on the council’s website. It also shows where bike bunkers have already been installed.

The Council first piloted a bike bunker in Dublin in 2015, and added twelve more in residential areas in 2019.

Bleeper Bikes, a dockless bike-sharing company which has been active in Dublin since 2017, will provide and maintain the new bike bunkers.

The scheme will run for 10 years, with an initial 4-year service contract.

The tender, which was issued in July 2024, estimated the maximum cost for the commission, delivery, installation and service of the secure hangars excluding VAT to come to €10m.