[*BCM*] Bostoncriticalmass Digest, Vol 37, Issue 6

[Adam Linton]

The city of Cambridge holds an annual auction for all of the unclaimed
bikes (both recovered stolen and pieces of abandoned).

You can find more info on the city of Cambridge website. 

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Stolen Bike (. nevele)


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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:26:26 -0400
From: ". nevele" <symboliceon at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Stolen Bike
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anyone know what exactly it is that they do with the abandoned bikes
they remove? are they just scrapped, or sold to bike shops for spare
parts, or at least recycled in SOME way?










>From: "David Savilonis" <david.savilonis at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Boston Critical Mass <list at bostoncriticalmass.org>
>To: "Boston Critical Mass" <list at bostoncriticalmass.org>
>Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Stolen Bike
>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:37:22 -0400
>
>I was more speaking about the "family" areas. Back streets of Inman, 
>East Cambridge, Union Sq.... Where it's mostly families and not abandon

>"commuter" bikes.
>
>I totally agree with the commuter areas.
>
>On 7/12/07, Owen Williams <owen at ywwg.com> wrote:
>>
>>Is that really such a bad idea?  In porter square I'd say a fifth or 
>>more of the bike racks are taken up by obviously abandonned half-bikes

>>with no wheels.  It's about time someone cleaned them out.
>>
>>owen
>>
>>On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 15:20 -0400, David Savilonis wrote:
>> > I know your bike disappeared from downtown Boston, but...
>> >
>> > I've recently seen Cambridge public works crews out removing old 
>> > 'delinquent' bikes from meters/sign posts/etc with chainsaws and 
>> > sawsalls. I found this quite odd for someplace as cycle-centric as 
>> > Cambridge, but worth looking into.
>> >
>> > On 7/12/07, Ron Newman <rnewman at thecia.net> wrote:
>> >         Is there any chance that the MBTA, or whoever manages South
>> >         Station, did not
>> >         like the place that you locked your bike, and took it away?
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