Boomtown cycle parking: Festival and Station
Boomtown Festival 2024: convenient bike parking option for Sunday Local Residents Ticket holders, but SWR confirms the same unsatisfactory arrangement for Winchester Station as in 2023.
Bike Theft Review of 2023
Cycle Winchester has been closely monitoring the disturbing levels of bike theft in the city, and intervening to try and improve the situation in theft hot spots, notably at the railway station. The latest statistics, showing a reduction in thefts during 2023, provide a crumb of comfort, but overall the situation is far from happy.
Warning: further bike thefts from Winchester station
There has been a spike in bike thefts from the railway station in recent weeks. These have mainly been from the covered racks in the rear car park also known as the “Hub”. Possibly as many as 7 were taken on one day. We have known for a while the …
Cycle theft rates fall, but an unfortunate reminder of the need for vigilance
Our August update on bike thefts paints a mixed picture. Theft rates in 2023 have been lower than the previous year, but an unfortunate recent theft of a young Winchester resident’s bike reminds us that one must be constantly vigilant to keep bikes secure. General trends The first 5 months …
Bike security and theft reporting in Winchester: a guide
74,421 bike thefts were reported to England and Wales police between July 2021 and June 2022. That means that a bike was stolen every 7 minutes in England and Wales in 2022. And don’t forget, this is reported cases; the actual number of bike thefts would have been at least …