“This is how Malmö council treat their city cyclists. The hard working commuters, who take the train from here, don’t have room to put there bicycle in a stand. So they place it next to it, hoping it won’t be in anyones way. Then these people come and steal them.”

Well this is very sad and stupid. It’s kind of obvious that the supply and demand is unbalanced here. Looks like there is plenty of room for a few more bike stands on that spot. 

And there’s no point in talking about budgets here. Those little commuters are gold mines when it comes to labour and tax relieves on the health care system. Society even makes money from supporting them. It’s simple science, google it. Every coin you put into facilitating cycling in a city will give you 4 coins back. Some studies even show a benefit to cost ratio of 20:1. And there’s a lot of good examples out there. In other words, if its all about money… go ahead and spend it on the cyclists.

Perhaps even build a bicycle garage. Problem solved.

Gettin’ out of the bicycle garage in Amsterdam.