Vancouver’s rampant bike theft problem is one of the greatest deterrents to getting more people to consider cycling for getting around.
The very real concern over whether a bike will be stolen while it is parked and secured in a public space — due to the lack of secured indoor public parking locations — is perhaps a greater factor for growing cycling’s transportation modal share than the size of the city’s bike lane network.
Mark Marissen, the mayoral candidate for the Progress Vancouver party, has made a new campaign platform promise to build secured public bike parking.
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