France considers compulsory motor vehicle-style ownership certificates

Another example of government mandarins getting bored and wondering what they can think up next to justify their existence.

I do believe that France has had compulsary registration once, during the Nazi occupation!

It's not going to happen. 

They'll consider it - realise it's bobbins and do other more productive things. 

The PSNI run a free bike registration scheme. They take a note of the bike serial number and details and add it to a database. They then put a sticker on the crossbar and one underneath the downtube. A thief may be able to remove these but the police will have your name and address registered against the bike.

There's quite a thriving little ebay market in the old plaques d'immatriculation from the days when bikes had to have a licence plate. Some of them are rather beautiful.

http://plaque.free.fr/f_v.html

luckily there seem to be plenty of people in France who see this sort of thing as an unwarranted infringement on personal freedom, and counterproductive as far as increasing cycle modal share goes, so hopefully the idea will be strangled at birth. Again.

And when bikes change hands all the time legitimately, who is going to cover the cost of the admin.

What a fecking waste of time, spend millions on a massively flawed system that won't protect owners in the slightest but a nice neat way to hide the fact it's not about preventing theft but will be good for data gathering by government and of course 'registration so that they and police can spend more time tracking down criminal cyclists than they will motorists.

They already know that deaths on the roads have gone up in recent years and that that isn't cyclists fault.

France used to love cycling, now they have helmet rules for kids, compulsary hi-vis outside of built up areas at night/limited visibility and all the usual bullshit that are easy victim blaming tools used in a way to bash the vulnerable and appease the popularist vote so they don't have to make unpopular decisions.

Yet again proving what I said a while back about the targets France of set of tripling cycling, it's utter bullshit and this would add to the other list of reasons why that won't happen.

Fucktards

The problem is spending £300M when it isn't clear what will be solved and if this is actually a solution.

I thought that a lot of bikes are stolen just for the components to be stripped and sold. How will marking the frame help with that? Seems like a lot of money and effort for very little benefit.

I don’t see the problem with this, though as above I remain to be convinced that the marking will stay put.

I'm not sure what problem this is supposed to deal with.
How difficult will it actually be to remove the number because “in a readable, indelible, permanent and unforgeable way in a clearly visible place” is just hyperbole.