True, but consider this much. I've handed in, and then claimed back bikes from the police. The bikes were cleaned, made roadworthy and passed on. How would you keep track of them, and who owned them?
It's a big deal in terms of taking on additional staff to design it, build it, administer it, staff to process the registration of all the bikes currently in ownership (around 25 million), record and verify frame numbers, a secure environment for printing registration certificates, issue certificates, record transfers of ownership, record destruction of bikes, record acquisition of new bikes (10s of 000 a year?), exports of bikes, imports of bikes, update changes of address, etc.
Didn't stop me being hit. The one I was riding at the time was registered to me.
Don't see why. We've an equal right to the roads. Get cars off normal roads and onto motorways. They were built for motorised traffic only.
Yes but there's millions of idiots out there and some who do have intelligence are just cruel bad people. I've lost faith in humanity. If you attack somebody with a hammer you're locked up for a long time. Kill Someone with a ton of car you get a slap on the wrist. That doesn't help matters.
Being fair to @glasgowcyclist, what he's saying about the costs is the same as those who'd have to set such a scheme in motion. That is the costs involved prevent it from being brought in.
More or less the same answer given to me, 8 years earlier. They never mentioned second-hand bikes though.
