Though the mission of the A.S. Bicycle Improvements Keep Everyone Safe (A.S. BIKES) committee is to “be responsive to student input on bicycle paths and bicycle parking at UCSB,” the bike racks in front of the UCen are still not usable after months of sitting empty and untouched, even after much student complaint. This, along with the current state of disrepair of the campus bikepaths, should signal that A.S. BIKES is not doing an adequate enough job to deserve the $0.75-per-quarter lock-in fee they are requesting to reaffirm, and that major improvements to the campus bike system should be left to the university in the first place.

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