What I found most interesting about this full-time, publicly funded bike valet parking program is, not that it reduced bike theft (although that is probably enough reason on its own to do this) but that it encouraged different types of people to ride their bikes downtown than they might otherwise do it.

Do you think fear of bike theft is a deterrent to people riding bikes?

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