{"id":848,"date":"2011-10-20T09:13:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T16:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2011-10-28T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T20:23:01","slug":"camosun-cyclists-hope-for-better-racks-get-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2011\/10\/20\/camosun-cyclists-hope-for-better-racks-get-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun cyclists hope for better racks, get storage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camosun College plans on installing secure bike storage on the Lansdowne campus and bike tune-up stations on both campuses, but staff and students are frustrated with the current state of campus bike racks.<\/p>\n

Camosun currently has a little over 200 rack spots at each campus. Some of the racks are underused, but some are overflowing, especially those between the Young and Ewing buildings on the Lansdowne campus.<\/p>\n

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Students lock their bikes to railings on campus (photo by Carol-Lynne Michaels\/Nexus).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhen the year started and it was sunny it was really hard to find a spot. They should probably give it a few more racks,\u201d says upgrading student Marlow Hart. \u201cIf it were full, I\u2019d have to lock my bike to a railing or a tree or something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many students have been doing exactly that. Often a half-dozen bikes or more are locked to the railing along the Young building at Lansdowne, as well as various railings around campus.<\/p>\n

Camosun installed new racks a year ago next to the Dawson and Ewing buildings, but they are barely used.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially when the weather\u2019s good, it\u2019s impossible to find a place to park your bike,\u201d says humanities instructor Larry Hannant. \u201cThere aren\u2019t enough racks, and the racks themselves are pretty badly designed. Bike users don\u2019t get the respect that the college says it\u2019s paying to cyclists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camosun currently has no plans to solve the rack problem, but they are in the process of developing bike tune-up stations similar to the \u201cbike kitchen\u201d at UVic for both campuses.<\/p>\n

As well, Camosun is hoping to have secure bike storage at the Lansdowne campus early next semester.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, in the next three to four months there will be a secure bike storage area on the Lansdowne campus, which will hold about 19 bikes and will be the same [$5] monthly charge as at Interurban,\u201d says manager of ancillary services Greg Simmonds.<\/p>\n

The tune-up stations will consist of a pump and a variety of tools that people can use for free.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough they are trying to catch up to UVic, their speed is very slow,\u201d says Richard Kao, CCSS sustainability director. \u201cNo matter how hard we promote biking, it comes down to whether the school can support it or not by putting the money into it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camosun College plans on installing secure bike storage on the Lansdowne campus and bike tune-up stations on both campuses, but staff and students are frustrated with the current state of campus bike racks. Camosun currently has a little over 200 rack spots at each campus. Some of the racks are underused, but some are overflowing, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":849,"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":[13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-october192011"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}