Comments on: Cycle stores to be built at Heslington East

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:37:20 +0000

People don’t report bikes being stolen most of the time because it doesn’t seem worth it. And it might not be personally to them if they had a rusty hunk of junk for a bike, but it does leave us with a situation where the statistics cover up the problem.

We had four bikes stolen from our yard on Hes Road last year. The police were pretty helpful about the ones we reported but acknowledged that around a thousand bike thefts happen in York every year.

It’s so clearly untrue that only 23 bikes were stolen.

By: Jason Rose

Jason Rose — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:10:48 +0000

Because I know a good 10 people who have had bikes stolen and am aware that there are a lot more going missing. Of course, 23 is the number of bikes that are *reported* going missing *on campus* so that is obviously a lower figure than otherwise but when we know that there are people deliberately targeting the university for bike thefts it seems odd that there aren’t more bikes missing or people reporting it.

By: SDDS

SDDS — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:19:06 +0000

SD would have increased it more! and given you a bike rental scheme.

you should have vote for him.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:11:00 +0000

Why do you refuse to accept it Jason?

By: Jason Rose

Jason Rose — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:34:47 +0000

I also refuse to accept that only 23 bikes were stolen from campus. Nonetheless, Goodricke does have good cycle storage already and I would suggest that the vast majority, if not all, stolen bikes were taken from outside and not from inside the lockable stores.

But these stores, as pointed out, are being built for the Hub. I’m assuming that the departments will also have cycle-storage, which is good as I know that quite a lot of staff get to uni by bike. Whether the storage will all be lockable or will be out in the open, we’ll have to wait and see (though, that said, I guess during departmental open-hours bikes are less likely to be stolen from outside dept. buildings)

By: Technofile

Technofile — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:39:44 +0000

MONORAIL MONORAIL MONORAIL MONORAIL

By: Jim Bulley

Jim Bulley — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:08:25 +0000

I’ll fix it!

Get it, Jim’ll fix it.

Oh I give up…

By: anon

anon — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:55:55 +0000

@ What?

Goodricke have the best bike facilities on campus! A few of the buildings have it included in the house, you’ll go in and the cameras will follow your movements around the shed.

Unlike Halifax, where the CCTV doesn’t even work for the accommodation let alone providing any for the bike facilities.

I refuse to believe that only 23 bikes were stolen from the entirity of campus, however. I was told that ~10 alone were taken on the first night of a certain college’s freshers, and another event had 5 bikes being stolen from the same college all in the same night! There are 7 colleges, I refuse to believe one could make up such a large proportion of that stat.

By: Goodricke ex-resident

Goodricke ex-resident — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:32:18 +0000

@What? There is plenty of bike storage in Goodricke college, both in lockable sheds and hoops around the courts and nucleus.

I’m assuming the new spaces are mainly there to provide for the staff and students in the new academic bulidings opening in october.

By: What?

What? — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:52:27 +0000

The only shocker here is that some genius decided to build student accomodation quite far away from campus and (apparently) no bike sheds were built alongside it. They’re only now just getting around to it?

By: Chaz

Chaz — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:02:24 +0000

Bloody ‘ell – bike storage on campus! Why isn’t the national press covering this?

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:34:17 +0000

On reading the article title I was surprised that a single bicycle store, let alone stores, would reckon Hes East a viable location for a new outlet. I then realised ‘store’ in this instance meant storage space rather than shop. I then read “The Heslington East expansion, the site of the new cycle shops..” and became confused again..