Attaching bicycles to bridges or street furniture is usually not allowed. These bikes run out of risk and get to the AFAC.
A General Bike Trading Center is often referred to as AFAC, a municipal service in several Dutch municipalities which stores and manages bikes. Bicycles have been removed by municipality, district or cleaning police because they were bothered or regarded as wreckage. Bikes that prove to be stolen are returned to the rightful owner free of charge, and other bicycles can be collected by the owner at a charge. Amsterdam
The first AFAC was set up as Amsterdam's Bicycle Handling Center in 2003 by the City of Amsterdam to centralize the handling of removed bikes. Because the bicycles were removed by different bodies, it was not always clear where the bike in question was. In order to make it easier for the owners of the bikes to get the bike back, the AFAC was set up. In 2006, approximately 24,000 bicycles were delivered to the AFAC in the Western Cape by the various services. Later the name AFAC changed to bicycle depot. Extension
In a number of other places in the Netherlands, a similar organization under the name of General Bicycle Handling Center has been set up for the Amsterdam example, which means that a national network of bicycle disposal centers has now been established. The first congregation that followed was Zwolle; Here the AFAC was opened on Wednesday, October 4, 2006. In the Drechtsteden region and in the IJmond there are advanced plans to set up an AFAC.
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