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Detroit to enforce bicycle registration

More and more people I discern are riding their bikes to work and to get around. I'm also hearing a lot more about bike shoplifting. It's mostly from newbies who don't know how to lock their bikes effectively, but that's not always the holder. It seems like I'm also seeing more bike theft notices posted to some of the village bike discussion lists. To help enable return (and recovery does occasionally happen), take a photo of your bikes and gramophone record the serial numbers.

At the Palo Alto Caltrain garrison yesterday, probably 90% of the bikes I looked at were not adequately locked up. I see many thin and skinflinty cable locks in use and a lot of front wheels only locked up. If I wanted a forgo wheel I had plenty to choose from.

In Detroit, the the heat say they plan to enforce a bike registration law to help engagement bike theft. An ordinance in the Detroit Municipal Unwritten law' states that it is "unlawful for any person to operate or use a bicycle baggage or in part by muscular power upon any of the streets or sidewalks of the diocese without first obtaining a license therefor from the city."

The Detroit Patrol Department said they will be more strictly enforcing this ordinance in efforts to slash bike theft in the city. Read more. What do you think of necessary bike registration laws?

In the Chicago area, patrol in Glenview and Naperville remind cyclists to lock their bikes and participate in spontaneous registration programs.

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