Our “Stop Bike Theft” project team ended 2024 with a final event at BiciHub. The aim of the workshop was to present results from the Fall “Stop Bike Theft” campaign and to workshop ideas from the cycling community about how we can better address this pervasive problem. With about 20 participants in the workshop, we reviewed the newest data on bike theft, and patterns of contributions form citizens have on the BiciZen over the last seven months. In the second part of the workshop we discussed the role of different stakeholders in the issue of bike theft. Divided into four groups, our participants discussed the role of the police, politicians, academia and the civil society. What is the responsibility of each of those actors in the problem? Which changes do we want to see from them? And – most importantly – how can we achieve these changes? Those and more questions were addressed in a lively discussion, in which citizens had the space to bring forward their own concerns and demands.
In this post we wanted to share a report that summarizes the work completed (English and Catalan). In addition, we have published an Impact Assessment Report which evaluates the project regarding its outputs and through the evaluation that we received from participants.
Finally, we have released Bike Theft Report Barcelona 2023 based on official police data from 2023.
We thus close 2024 with three new publications and we will continue to work against bike theft in the new year 2025. Our aim in 2025 is to establish a high level commission to examine the issue of bicycle theft. We are in conversations with Bicicleta Club de Catalunya (BACC) and others to create this commission or working group.
The Stop Bike Theft campaign is funded by the IMPETUS program on Citizen Science.
