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Aesthetic appeal is also a factor. Bike racks take up a lot of space, and often installing them translates into displacing trees and bushes...
Although the limited number of bike racks available for the Houses and some classroom buildings is the prime source of overcrowding, abandoned and derelict bikes left on the racks claim significant space...
...It’s very tricky to identify which bikes are abandoned—we usually end up having to put a notice on the bike if we suspect it of being discarded, and then we cut it off the rack if no one responds,” Ketelhohn says...
...criterion is that if a bike is loaded with dust or the chain is rusted solid, then I cut it off and get rid of it,” says Coveney, who cut about 10 bikes off the Lowell racks prior to school opening...
Instead, they place a special lock on the bike, in turn forcing the owner to contact the Harvard University Police Department to have the bike unlocked. There are no fines for releasing these bikes...