Bike theft isn't just a nuisance. It's a serious problem plaguing almost every city in the world, and it stifles bike-friendliness, discourages people from riding, fuels crime and undermines our sense of community. Yet almost no cities are doing anything to seriously tackle the problem.
Almost. One city in the world has come up with a way to combat bike theft that is staggeringly successful. The idea has cut bike theft in half in some neighourhoods, and kept theft down year after year. It's an idea so successful that you'd think people in every city would be scrambling to adapt it for their own use. But the idea has been frustratingly slow to spread.
In this video, I go deep on bike theft and look at its surprisingly broad ramifications and the reasons it has become such a stubborn urban problem. And I look at a program in Vancouver, Canada—a collaboration between the police, a company called 529 Garage and an army of community members—that has found so much success that its proponents are desperate to get other cities on board. But very few have done so, for reasons that might surprise and infuriate you.
0:00 Introduction
2:06 Chapter 1: The Implications
7:52 Chapter 2: The Apathy
10:46 Chapter 3: The Law
14:38 Chapter 4: The Solution
22:22 Chapter 5: The Bureaucracy
Project 529: https://project529.com/garage
McGill Study on bike theft: https://tram.mcgill.ca/Research/Publications/Cycling_theft.pdf
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