Office of Sustainability

Okay, so CofC has tons of bike racks! It seems as though students are putting their bikes on the rack that is closest to whatever building they happen to be in at a given time. Why? My bike is usually across campus in a well “supervised” area where it is not getting scratched and tossed around because nobody ever parks there. When we walked around campus to map out the racks, I could not believe how many we found sitting empty or with 1 or 2 bikes on them. Ironically, other racks had every space full. I did not expect the racks near the dorm rooms to be as vacant as they were. For instance, College Lodge has around 13 bike racks, and probably 11 were empty. I guess students figure that if their bike is near lots of other bikes, then it has less of a chance of getting stolen. Maybe that’s true, but if the kids in the dorm start using the racks closest to them, it would free up plenty of space for others who live off campus and have to ride their bikes to campus.