He has been advised by the police that if a white bike is found with the user’s own lock in place he should fix one of the project’s locks and leave a message asking the user to remove their lock
for the record I'm not linked to the white bikes scheme I'm just a glasgow based bike fan and was a bit pissed off when i read this, I used these during the arts fest and they were a great idea
they should do a sister program, whereby the bikes are lent out, in the same kind of art/scheme, and then withdrawn after a certain, clearly published date (maybe published on the website next to the combination lock number) by when they must be returned to the point of dropoff.
and any non recovered bikes are then detonated remotely, sending the thief into orbit in a red mushy goo.
Publicly funded 'art installation' with free to all lock combo, my the conceptual artist that came up with that one is a frikkin genius!
May I suggest who ever signed the scheme off in the offices of power gets their arse kicked and and made to explain how they thought the bikes would never get stolen?
Some lovely comments there. £5k is nowt in public money terms – that's probably what David Cameron pays his driver every week to carry his briefcase. Imagine if the money went to fund another project, like a sculpture, and some oiks vandalised it, would that be a failure too?
Perhaps we should only have vandal-proof, theft-proof public initiatives – wouldn't that make everyone feel lovely about themselves, and the society we live in. 😕
There's a sculpture park in Holland (the Kroller Muller museum) which has done something very similar – except IIRC the bikes aren't even locked. I think a few of them got nicked at the start, but now the thieves don't bother, as the bikes are widely known about, and pretty worthless anyway.
Yeah, right. I'm doing the school budget at the mo, and £5k is close to being a week's worth of teaching assistant, morning or afternoon. We could do with another two or three of them, but as you say £5k is nowt in public money terms. Bloody hard to find out of a tight budget here though.
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