Hudson’s Bay Centre has pretty much been stealing people’s bikes
A communications consultant named Lisa Ferguson says she thought her bike had been stolen on Wednesday when she returned to the place she’d locked it up —a pole-mounted TTC sign, outside Hudson’s Bay Centre at Bloor and Yonge—only to find it missing. Except, it turns out the bike wasn’t stolen—not exactly. Ferguson’s bike was actually removed by a Hudson’s Bay Centre security guard, despite the fact that there’s no signage in the area to warn cyclists of that possibility, and also despite the fact that the pole is sitting on what appears to be public property. Ferguson recovered her bike from the building and wrote an outraged Facebook post that has since won the media to her side. A representative of Brookfield Office Properties, the Hudson’s Bay Centre’s owner, would tell the Star only that he’s “looking into the legality” of the bike-lock-cutting spree.
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A communications consultant named Lisa Ferguson says she thought her bike had been stolen on Wednesday when she returned to the place she'd locked it up —a pole-mounted TTC sign, outside Hudson's Bay Centre at Bloor and Yonge—only to find it missing. Except, it turns out the bike wasn't stolen—not exactly. Ferguson's bike was actually removed by a Hudson's Bay Centre security guard, despite the fact that there's no signage in the area to warn cyclists of that possibility, and also despite the fact that the pole is sitting on what appears to be public property. Ferguson recovered her bike from the building and wrote an outraged Facebook post that has since won the media to her side. A representative of Brookfield Office Properties, the Hudson's Bay Centre's owner, would tell the Star only that he's "looking into the legality" of the bike-lock-cutting spree.){kind=link}
Warning: Bicycles maybe stolen here.
Sale on new bicycles at the Hudson’s Bay Centre?
They’re looking INTO the legality. Maybe they should have looked into that before they turned their security guards into bike thieves!
They’re back at it! Brookfield seems to have a new strategy for dealing with bikes on their property at Yonge & Bloor. Yesterday at about 12:15pm, after finding every ring and post at that intersection full, I locked my bike to a pole that was right beside a larger pole, just outside one of the entrances to Hudson’s Bay. I popped in for probably 10 minutes and when I came back out, the pole that my bike had been locked to was gone. My bike was still there, resting against the larger pole, with my undamaged lock hanging from the frame.I’m very lucky that I wasn’t inside for long and no one stole my bike, but it is concerning that Brookfield, having been publicly chastised for stealing bikes last year, is now just removing the poles (on public property) and leaving bikes to be stolen by someone else.