Yesterday during No Impact Day Three I tried twice to ride my bike to Alamance Crossing. Once to the bookstore and once out to eat.
The only bike rack at Alamance Crossing used to be near the kids play area and the pretzel shop. Well, it’s gone and there are NO BIKE RACKS that I can find anywhere in this mall. Boo!
Serves me right, we should probably patronize somewhere else to eat (I’m partial to Simply Thai and my own kitchen right now) but long story short, we ended up here and that’s that.
The first time I left my bike unlocked outside B&N (forgot my key) and the second time I locked my bike to a fence. This is not cool. I am going to call the management company tomorrow and figure out what is up with this.
Where the bike rack used to be:
When you couple this with ZERO functional water fountains and ZERO bike racks at JD Park, I am wondering just what the heck is going on in the heads of the “Powers That Be” in West Burlington. (PS, there are no functioning water fountains at Beth Schmidt park either, last I checked, and the water at Cedarock is questionable at best, I can think of twice when it’s been contaminated with e.coli and the fountains have been closed. I bring my own water now when I run. What a hassle.)
