Comments on: Reporting Cycle Crime at Cambridge Station

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:54:27 +0000

My (two day old, 300 quid) bike was stolen using bolt croppers from the far end of the car park a couple of years ago. British Transport police refused even to review the CCTV footage, saying ‘it would take too long’ as I couldn’t give them an approximate time of theft. (I had returned at midnight from a day in London)
In vain did I try to tell them to do a binary search - spool to middle of period, is bike still there, Yes/No jump to middle of remaining period etc. They gave ma a crime number and left it at that.

By: Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:41:30 +0000

I’ve signed up to show my support for a campaign on FixMyTransport.com for better cycle parking at the station:

http://www.fixmytransport.com/campaigns/fix-the-dire-cycle-parking-shortage-at-cambridge-s

By: Brett Hughes

Brett Hughes — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:33:07 +0000

Excellent summary Richard. I rang them 2 years ago and gave up after being passed to 3 different numbers. I think this should come up at East Area Committee as a priority.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:07:23 +0000

Hi, you should add the details of this bike crime to http://www.bikecrime.co.uk

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:47:11 +0000

British Transport police called me to say:

*There’s no CCTV covering where I parked my bike.

*That there’s no mechanism for reports of crime leading to improvements in things like cycle parking.

*That the bike stands at the station are provided by National Express; and “people power” lobbying them might be the best way to seek improvements.

*They carry out regular plain clothes monitoring of the cycle parking.

*Cycle crime at the station is a major problem;

By: Frugal Dougal

Frugal Dougal — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:14:17 +0000

You’re right about bikes being many people’s primary mode of transport - being from near Cambridge, I use a bus less than once a month! I wonder what other activities the proceeds of bike crime fund, on those occasions when a bike os sold on?

By: duncan

duncan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:17:52 +0000

“I wouldn’t be able to report what had happened to Cambridge Police as they don’t accept reports of things which have happened on station property” - do you suppose that includes more serious crime, e.g. assault?