My Victory Dance - sort of.
Yesterday I decided to go see this most excellent bike rack that was installed per my pestering. Other than outright saying "We didn't do this because we actually care, we did it to keep you from carrying out your picket threats, also we don't like you showing up on the first page of Google results." there's no better way to say it. 
Yep. That's it. It's actually my favorite type of rack, really it is, but it's only meant for one or two bikes - which considering this place has no less that four eating establishments in it will quickly be taken by employees once they figure out it's there. In this area the largest segment of the biking community is food and car wash workers of questionable legal residence.
There should be at minimum one more rack six to eight feet of the left of it or 180 degrees opposite of it near the other wall. Where it up to me both of those spots would be filled plus another both eight feet to the right of and 180 degrees opposite of the other non-existent two. Also it's in the least conspicuous part of the establishment, so unless you're like me having received and email specifically telling you it's there you're unlikely to notice it, thieves love inconspicuous. On the other hand it's very conveniently located to the rear door of Bullritos, which is a rather inconvenient way to enter, the place is designed to enter the front door to fill out your bag, but never mind that, they just need to hippies use back door sign.
I am of course a man of my word, so until the bike rack is consistently full every time I show up I'm not going to pester them anymore. It may be that my ranting was a selfish thing done with the delusions of helping a less than prominent class of people in this area. I doubt it, I'm sure it will be put to use if people actually know it's there, considering it's location that's unlikely. Here's my bike happily attached and of course my victory burrito. I'm going to focus on the shopping center with Star Bucks, the Pho' place and the Sammich place next.
I never should have had to pester them, considering not only the obvious stuff I pointed out in the first post, but the $2.5 Million in federal money they took to build the project. Federal projects generally have accessibility and inclusiveness clauses.
FOR THOSE OF YOU NEW TO THIS STORY be sure to check out the tag top level that has the rest of the story, read from bottom story to top story to put it in chronological order.
Yep. That's it. It's actually my favorite type of rack, really it is, but it's only meant for one or two bikes - which considering this place has no less that four eating establishments in it will quickly be taken by employees once they figure out it's there. In this area the largest segment of the biking community is food and car wash workers of questionable legal residence.
There should be at minimum one more rack six to eight feet of the left of it or 180 degrees opposite of it near the other wall. Where it up to me both of those spots would be filled plus another both eight feet to the right of and 180 degrees opposite of the other non-existent two. Also it's in the least conspicuous part of the establishment, so unless you're like me having received and email specifically telling you it's there you're unlikely to notice it, thieves love inconspicuous. On the other hand it's very conveniently located to the rear door of Bullritos, which is a rather inconvenient way to enter, the place is designed to enter the front door to fill out your bag, but never mind that, they just need to hippies use back door sign.
I am of course a man of my word, so until the bike rack is consistently full every time I show up I'm not going to pester them anymore. It may be that my ranting was a selfish thing done with the delusions of helping a less than prominent class of people in this area. I doubt it, I'm sure it will be put to use if people actually know it's there, considering it's location that's unlikely. Here's my bike happily attached and of course my victory burrito. I'm going to focus on the shopping center with Star Bucks, the Pho' place and the Sammich place next.
I never should have had to pester them, considering not only the obvious stuff I pointed out in the first post, but the $2.5 Million in federal money they took to build the project. Federal projects generally have accessibility and inclusiveness clauses.
FOR THOSE OF YOU NEW TO THIS STORY be sure to check out the tag top level that has the rest of the story, read from bottom story to top story to put it in chronological order.