if anyone sees one around, the scheme has now ended!, knick it back! and get it back to the charity please thank you
The £5000 publicly funded project saw the bikes fitted with identical combination locks and the code published on the internet.
Seriously?! You must have expected a 100% mortality rate, surely?
good luck!
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
Using the same internet-published combination?
methinks this whole process wasn't thought through very clearly.
In Glasgow of all places, I guess it may have looked better than in Liverpool.
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
To be fair if they are being used by folk that need them (or bought them for £30 in the pub) better than being in a lock up as per teh article.
i think thats crap.
too many people out for what they can get 🙁
they should do a sister program, whereby the bikes are lent out, in the same kind of art/scheme, and then withdrawn after a certain, clearly published date (maybe published on the website next to the combination lock number) by when they must be returned to the point of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.
And folk say there can't be cuts made to public spending...
That was my thinking midlife. Genuinely can't see anything positive from handing out 5K's worth of bikes randomly.
did they seriously think that they'd get any back?!
daftest idea (although one clearly done with good intentions) ever.
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.
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fixed it for youCity [s]art project[/s] is taken for a ride
£5k is nowt in public money terms
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.
