Saxon municipalities disposed of hundreds of scrap bicycles last year. In the three major cities alone, 558 bicycles were collected that had obviously been abandoned by their owners and removed by the authorities, according to an inquiry in Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz.
By far the most bikes were removed in Leipzig with 499. There were 22 in Chemnitz and 37 in Dresden, although the state capital pointed out that it had to concentrate its staff on organizing several elections in 2024. "However, the need for the disposal of scrap bikes was definitely there," it said. In 2023, 180 bikes were still removed in Dresden.
