Alert - MTA violates state law

[Senator Gladden's response]
Q: What part of a bus is allowed to be broken and go without repair, adversely affecting a segment of the ridership population?
A: The bike rack.

All 180 bike racks have been destroyed by MTA drivers and there have been ZERO effort for repair or replacement. MTA drivers have been destroying bus bike racks at a rate close to one a week and no one in MTA thought this is a problem to be dealt with by repair or replacement. It really gets my goat when we fight for a bike facility then it gets taken away, there really should be a law against this MTA would like to maintain that as long as new buses come equipped with bike racks they

by B' Spokes

Like most people I live a hectic life and who has the time for much exercise? Thanks to xtracycle now I do. By using my bike for daily activities I can get things done and get an hour plus work out in 15 minutes extra of my time, not a bad deal and beats taking the extra time going to the gym. In case you are still having trouble being motivated; the National Center of Disease Control says that inactivity is the #2 killer in the United States just behind smoking. ( http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/bb_nutrition/ ) Get out there and start living life! I can carry home a full shopping cart of groceries, car pool two kids or just get lost in the great outdoors camping for a week. Well I got go, another outing this weekend.
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Please help support a fully equipped bus fleet with bike racks.

Bikes and buses are cleaner and greener then single occupancy vehicles. Bikes and buses work to promote the Baltimore Area as a great place to live, work and go to college by having more transportation options and a few buses with bike racks scattered randomly here and there are not going to do a thing for us.

Bike racks on buses at ~ $200 a bus are considered a low cost and the most bang for the buck solution for promoting cycling, clean air, getting cars off the road, a healthy life style and increased bus ridership. Both State and City adopted Bike Master Plans demand bike racks on buses. I get many comments about the lack bike racks on buses, this is fairly typical:
I just moved to Baltimore 4 weeks ago ... I didn't really think to check up on the bike transportation network before I moved to town and was shocked to find 1) the buses have no bike racks!
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