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<\/a>\u201cIt speaks to the broader deficit within campus planning that exists on this campus,\u201d says CCSS clubs and events coordinator Edward Pullman. \u201cThere was no discussion had with students regarding this, no discussion with the student society or the students on the needs of on-campus cycling facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Camosun director of ancillary service Kathryn Le Gros, who says that it will take over 10 years to recoup the costs of the racks, says this is not a commercial venture, rather, they are simply giving Camosun cyclists what they want. \u201cWe have been in regular communication with the cycling community at Camosun,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Upon discovering that the paid lockup station was being put in, CCSS reps met with Le Gros. Le Gros drafted a letter of agreement stating both parties will agree on all future changes to covered bike racks or the numbers of free bike racks on campus.<\/p>\n
The college\u2019s decision to install the paid bike spots is part of a larger project laid out in their transportation and parking management plan. The college says they are providing this service for the benefit of Lansdowne students and staff, similar to the bike lockup currently at Interurban, which costs users the same rate per month.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re responding to the cycling community\u2019s desire and request to have a lockup facility where they can put their bikes and feel that it is secure,\u201d says Le Gros. \u201cOur objective to whatever we do relating to bikes, or cars, or buses is to make it better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pullman says that if the paid lockup is a service students want, that\u2019s great; the problem lies in ensuring that the covered racks get replaced with other covered areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe loss of space, we need to look at how we\u2019re going to replace that,\u201d he says. \u201cAt the end of the day, sheltered bike parking is a huge incentive for students to cycle to campus, and any loss should be made up elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Le Gros says that the college will be adding in more free bike parking in Lansdowne\u2019s high traffic areas to replace the racks they are taking away, so the total number of bike racks will not be diminished. These new racks, however, will not be covered.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are areas that are already at capacity and need more bike racks,\u201d says Le Gros. \u201cThat\u2019s where we\u2019ll be replacing them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The college is looking into the possibility of building more free covered racks next fiscal year. But, in a rainy city like Victoria, some students are concerned about losing the free covered space, even temporarily.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only place I ever lock up is underneath this enclosure,\u201d says geography student Lliam Hildebrand. \u201cThey should provide an alternative space, not take over space that\u2019s already being utilized.\u201d<\/p>\n
Environmental technology student Amanda Kletchao says the current system is good enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have a problem with what it\u2019s like now,\u201d says Kletchao. \u201cI feel that my things are secure.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bike lockup and a bike repair station are two parts of a plan that will be announced in a few weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will be a lot more to announce around this project about how students have been involved in designing this bike lockup facility,\u201d says Le Gros. \u201cThere is some really exciting news around it. It\u2019s actually going to be kind of neat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Camosun College will soon be replacing some of the campus\u2019 free covered bike parking with a paid bike lockup system. They will be adding more free bike parking elsewhere on campus at a later date, but it won\u2019t be covered. The new storage spaces, which will house approximately 19 bikes and cost users $5.50 per […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-february-22-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}