Bicyclists at Pierce College are cluttering up the already small campus, so the prohibition of riding bikes on campus should be enforced.
Pierce’s walkways barely have enough pavement for the students on foot, let alone the ones on wheels.
Also, the usage of bikes at Pierce is unnecessary with such a short distance in between building structures.
With at least a ten minute grace period for back–to–back classes, students have enough time to be on time without their big wheels.
Bikes should only be used to get to and from school.
The various bike rack locations, like the one in front of South Gym and Student Services Building serve as a place where students can store their bicycles while on campus.
Bicyclists put more stress on the walking students who now have to worry about dodging yellow fixie bikes instead of formatting their cheat sheets.
Pierce should take a page from residential neighborhoods, as well as neighboring California State University, Northridge, and make bike lanes along the sidewalk all across the school.
This way bikes will be out of the way of people and students can safely pretend that they are going to class.
Now, the possibility of every bicyclist using the bike lanes is slim to none but this will definitely decrease the amount of bike riders on the walkways.
Most bikes on campus don’t have horns and with the way bicyclists swerve in-between crowds someone is bound to get nudged by the tip of a bike handle really hard one day.
Pierce should not wait for a complaint to be made against them to take action on bikes.
The safety of bike riders can’t even be guaranteed because practically all of them lack proper protective gear, only some are fortunate enough to have a Chicago Bulls snap–back hat.
Pierce College should have the right to ignore these self-inflicted accidents since bike riders refuse to ignore the no–bike riding rule on campus.
Some bicyclists even have the nerve to lay their bikes in the pathway of busy intersections like in front of vending machines.
This causes an inconvenience to the people who have to jeopardize their safety by jumping over someone’s bike just to buy a cherry Coca-Cola.
Bikes, unlike skateboards, can’t be thrown up under your arm when the sidewalk reaches its capacity.
They are definitely not small enough to slip into your fairly empty backpack that only contains the iPod connected to a set of headphones by Dr. Dre.
In other words, Pierce should by proactive and ensure the safety of everybody by ending this two–wheel derby.
Nobody likes bright, neon-colored bikes anyways.
