Originally Posted by
trekker pete
What does piss me off is my company spouting "green" BS, then doing absolutely nothing to support my bike commuting (see rant about bike being kicked out of building a few weeks ago).
You think thats bad. My university (I'm a professor) started a bike share program. Only problem is the campus is nowhere near where the students live and the campus is too small to need a bike for riding from one part to another. So basically they wasted a bunch of money and energy buying several tons worth of custom bikes, and no one rides them.....ever. They are literally sitting in front of every building chained to bike racks, rotting. Its a bike joke on campus. But the president continues to tout the bike program as one of the major "green" initiatives of the college. Even with this supposed "bike friendly" attitude, I got yelled at last week by one of the "buildings and grounds" head honchos for parking my bike in my office. A few weeks ago, I called the head of security to complain about the reckless driving of security personel. His response was that I should not ride my bike to campus because its too dangerous. I pointed out to both of them that the campus has a bike-share program and that I have been parking my bike in my office for the past six years. So I basically continue to ignore them and ride to campus and park my bike in my office anyway. The stupidity makes me ill.