“to build, buy, or salvage any and all bike rack And to distribute them to every bussiness, school, and parka where none exist. Do this, and they shall bike”
*Sigh* wish I could do that, bike racks was very rare here.
O come on! How many folks without kids think about school facilities! Give Moon a break. Besides he does work for a living, maybe it’s on his “To Do” list.
@Alex…probably liability issues. We offered to build a set of playground equipment for a local elementary school at cost, but the district wanted us to provide an insurance policy with $3 million dollar limit.
Maybe Yehuda *DID* put a bike rack at the school, only to have it removed while the school repaved the parking lot. And since the school hadn’t put it there in the first place, they’re probably in no particular hurry to put it back.
@Dick – obviously you have not been reading these comments long enough. Many of these posters have a hard time distinguishing between pen-and-ink and reality!
The City of Toronto will install their famous “post and ring” bicycle parking racks on sidewalks and other public spaces in response to public requests. For details see:
Since when could biking be considered a liability issue? How is traveling in a many-thousand-pound metal box less of a liability issue? If anything, larger, faster-moving objects should be more likely to crash into each other.
@John Russell:
To many, bikes are just pointy, sharp and dangerous heaps of metal that *children* can fall off of, on to, or crash into one another and get seriously injured. (As per Maude Flanders, “Someone please think of the children!”) So, in having a bike rack located on school property, it not only creates a situation where more children are around dangerous pointy metal things, it adds another permanent pointy dangerous metal thing (being the rack itself) to school property, thus exacerbating the probability that more children will get hurt on school property. “Why won’t someone please think of the liability?!”
With parking spots, cars are less spikey, are operated by ‘adults’ and most importantly, carry their own insurance policies.
Budget issue, eh?
“to build, buy, or salvage any and all bike rack And to distribute them to every bussiness, school, and parka where none exist. Do this, and they shall bike”
*Sigh* wish I could do that, bike racks was very rare here.
Make a bike rack out of bikes.
If Yehuda put them up all over town how did he forget about the school? tisk tisk.
O come on! How many folks without kids think about school facilities! Give Moon a break. Besides he does work for a living, maybe it’s on his “To Do” list.
i think these kids will end up painting false bike lanes at nights with yehuda
…because every kid would use the term “budget issue”.
i used to complain about budget issues all the time in highschool
Ah, this is a comic strip, right?
@Alex…probably liability issues. We offered to build a set of playground equipment for a local elementary school at cost, but the district wanted us to provide an insurance policy with $3 million dollar limit.
Aaron
Not “every kid would use the term ‘budget issue’ ” but I know plenty that would. Plus Chunkbait is not just an ordinary kid. ; )
@Alex, BlackBear, 2whis3spds:
Maybe Yehuda *DID* put a bike rack at the school, only to have it removed while the school repaved the parking lot. And since the school hadn’t put it there in the first place, they’re probably in no particular hurry to put it back.
redwing, you are right,
The last time when the authorities reneged on the promise of building bike racks, they cited budget issues as the reason.
These kids are just quoting whoever said that.
This sounds a lot like an actual news story I read. Carry on!
then when they do bring a rack to the school the school will make them remove it because of “liability issues”
“That Crazy Dude” – that’s funny, I’m not surprised that the kids see him that way.
Joe’s a bit peculiar, but not crazy
@Dick – obviously you have not been reading these comments long enough. Many of these posters have a hard time distinguishing between pen-and-ink and reality!
@Dick
Of course, keep in mind that bianchi-boy is actually a character in the strip.
There’s a bike rack at an old broken down school in town…. I’ve been wondering what they’re gonna do with it..
The City of Toronto will install their famous “post and ring” bicycle parking racks on sidewalks and other public spaces in response to public requests. For details see:
http://www.toronto.ca/cycling/postandring.htm
I see that the City will have installed over 3,000 (yes, that’s three thousand) of these bicycle parking stands this year. For details see:
http://www.toronto.ca/cycling/bikeplan/parking.htm
Every sidewalk and public space where I’ve travelled in Toronto has had adequate bicycle parking. The plan works.
Since when could biking be considered a liability issue? How is traveling in a many-thousand-pound metal box less of a liability issue? If anything, larger, faster-moving objects should be more likely to crash into each other.
@John Russell:
To many, bikes are just pointy, sharp and dangerous heaps of metal that *children* can fall off of, on to, or crash into one another and get seriously injured. (As per Maude Flanders, “Someone please think of the children!”) So, in having a bike rack located on school property, it not only creates a situation where more children are around dangerous pointy metal things, it adds another permanent pointy dangerous metal thing (being the rack itself) to school property, thus exacerbating the probability that more children will get hurt on school property. “Why won’t someone please think of the liability?!”
With parking spots, cars are less spikey, are operated by ‘adults’ and most importantly, carry their own insurance policies.
Ok I’ve been out of school for awhile now but are there seriously schools out there that don’t have bike racks?
sadness
Seriously… what kid talks like the fat kid?