Last year about this time I posted on the bicycles at Swanson Middle School. On the day I took that photo in 2008, there were thirteen bikes parked at the school. The picture here was taken in mid-October 2009, and shows fourteen bikes (and a scooter that you can't quite see). So that's a slight uptick from last year. I was pleased to see that there are still kids who are smart enough to know that riding a bike to school is probably the quickest way--allowing them to sleep in longer in the morning and get where they want to go sooner in the afternoon.
A couple of days later I was walking by again, and there were eighteen bikes! 
I guess they are getting smarter. Now it's time for the school to install a couple more racks, because there are only ten racks with room for two bikes on each--twenty total capacity.
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Steve Offutt, Arlington
Right on! Good to see the numbers are at least somewhat constant (instead of declining).
Posted by: Yokota Fritz | November 20, 2009 at 03:09 PM