Avenue Louise, a bicycle thief’s paradise

The City of Brussels will install 600 bicycle poles each year to combat the phenomenon.

The number of cyclists in Brussels has never been higher than during this period of health crisis. The Region, via its 40 km of cycle paths in the process of being installed, thus encourages the population to get in the saddle, but important work still needs to be done in the fight against theft.

Thus, nearly 5,000 bicycle thefts were recorded throughout Brussels in 2019. The situation is particularly problematic in the Brussels Capital Ixelles police zone. It is on the axis of avenue Louise that the most

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