Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐The state office building in my town apparently got new #bicycle racks. :facepalm:
How much money do you think the person who approved this is being paid? #BikeTooter #GovernmentWaste #GovernmentIncompetence #Vermont #VTpol
What makes me absolutely nuts about this is that if they had simply shifted the staple racks 24" further away from the building wall, they would have at least been marginally usable, even if they still would not be in the correct position, while leaving the actual bicycles in the exact same positional relationship to the wall, not taking up any more sidewalk space.
They could have placed them parallel to the wall, and had room for twice as many, while taking up even less space.
Geoff Duncan@gcvsa
"Not enough," I'm sure they'd say.
"Not enough," I'm sure they'd say.
@geoffduncan A damned sight more than *I* make, that's for sure. I went to this building today because it houses the state government's local Dept of Health office, and that's where I get my vaccinations.
As frustrating as this misuse of my tax money is, due to the incompetence of the installers placing the staples too close to the building, it is actually an improvement on what was there before, which was of course *nothing at all*.
For people who don't understand:
Staple racks should be installed a minimum of 36" from adjacent walls, and 48" is better, to allow for clearance of bicycle tires and still support the bicycle at at least two points.
@gcvsa
Back in my bike days there was a rack like that I could make-do with if I leaned the bike up against the building: I lived in a place where I didn't have to worry much about front-wheel theft.
But that trick won't really work here, and the fatal flaw in my workaround was that when too many other bikes turned up mine became impossible to retreive.