When thousands of students bicycle on a college campus every day, as you can imagine, providing an adequate bike parking rack for each one can be a challenge.
The scale architects and planners face is just enormous. These are not a dozen bicyclists pedaling to classes. We're talking tens of thousands.
For example, at the University of California, Davis, there are approximately 20,000 bicycles on campus on any given day. (That's because the university and the town is probably the most bicycle-friendly place in America).
That's not an anomaly. When you think of the number of students enrolled at universities, the volume of cyclists is massive.
Colorado State University has 23,600 registered bicycles. More than 13,000 students bicycle on the Stanford University campus every day. The University of Minnesota