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STATE & LOCAL
Tuesday, August 28,1990
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By MIKE LUMAN
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will be on the lookout for dangerous
traffic violations frequently com
mitted by bicycle riders on and near
the Texas A&M campus.
University and College Station po
lice departments are on the lookout
for bikes running stop signs, travel
ing the wrong way on one-way
streets or lacking adequate lights at
night.
Elmer Schneider, University Po
lice associate director, said bicycles
are a major means of transportation
for A&M students and safety is the
main concern.
“Traffic laws apply to persons rid
ing bikes,” Schneider said. “Bikes
Mental are to be operated as any other vehi
cle on a public roadway.”
State law requires bikes at night to
have a white light in front visible
from a distance of 500 feet and a red
reflector x>r light on the back visible
up to the same distance.
Use of bike lanes, where available,
also reduces the chance of an acci
dent.
The Department of Parkini
Transit and Traffic Services recently
banned on-street automobile park
ing on roads to make room for bike
lanes.
“We approve of that,” Schneider
said. “Now vehicles must be kept
from parking in bike lanes.’
Lt. A.W. Onstott with the College
Station Police Department said the
city has approved bike routes off
campus, but Texas Avenue is not
one of them.
Signs prohibiting bicycles are on
Texas Avenue between the intersec
tions of Southwest Parkway and Uni
versity Drive.
Bike riders on Texas Avenue are
issued a citation for violation of a city
ordinance, Onstott said.
He said off-campus routes are-
marked, and a map of approved
bike lanes is available at the CSPD or
City Hall.
Onstott reminded bike riders to
travel on the right side of the road in
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Bryan Coca-Cola, A&M negotiated
higher price for drink machines
By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
If you’d like to buy the world a
Coke it’s going to cost 10 cents
more per can at Texas A&M than
it would have last semester.
The price of soft drinks in all
vending machines on the A&M
campus has increased from 50 to
60 cents.
The increase stems from a con
tract negotiated last year between
A&M’s Business Services Depart
ment and Bryan Coca-Cola in
which A&M wanted a larger per
centage of the profits from the
machines, said Russell Hanna,
Bryan Coca-Cola vending man
ager.
“It was a mutually agreed upon
pricing agreement,” Hanna said.
“A&M wanted a bigger percent
age of the profits. We pay them a
handsome cut (of the profits) so
we can have our machines on
A&M’s property.”
Hanna said Bryan Coca-Cola
agreed to the new contract on the
condition it would raise drink
prices to 60 cents in August to
make up for the drop in profits.
The increase was implemented
Aug. 13 to coincide with the
break between the second sum
mer session and the beginning of
the fall semester.
Hanna said the company did
not want to confuse students by
changing prices during the se
mester.
Hanna said each location serv
iced by Bryan Coca-Cola operates
under a different contract. Some
locations have prices set at 50, 60
or 75 cents.
Vending machines at Texas
Tech University sell soft drinks
for 55 cents and soft drinks at the
University of Houston increased
to 60 cents in 1988, Hanna said.
“We realize 50 cents is a very
good price, but we have held off a
price increase on campus for
seven years,” Hanna said. “We
have shouldered the losses when
our costs went up and we can no
longer continue to sell soft drinks
for 50 cents. If we didn’t increase
the price of drinks, we would
have to cut back somewhere.”
Soft drinks prices increased
from 45 to 50 cents in 1983.
Hanna said a 5 cent increase to
55 cents was not practical because
vending machines frequently run
out of nickels.
Calls to A&M officials were not
returned Monday.
Hanna said he does not antic
ipate a price increase in the food
vending machines that Bryan
Coca-Cola also stocks and main
tains.
the same direction as traffic, bike
lane or not.
Schneider said crosswalks on cam
pus are not part of bike lanes, and
riders do not have the right-of-way
over automobiles unless they are
walking their bikes.
He said handicap ramps are not
“bike ramps,” and collisions with pe
destrians could result from their use
by bike riders.
Bikes technically can be cited for
being on a sidewalk if there is a lane
nearby, he said.
He said UPD issues citations to
bike riders answerable to the justice
of the peace court, not the Univer
sity.
Bike racks are the legal place to
park, but parking and transit issues
any tickets for parking violations,
Schneider said.
“There are those who have little
regard for the handicapped and
chain them to ramp rails,” he said.
He said some park right up at the
front door of a building, a safety
hazard in emergency situations.
UPD is sensitive that a lot of stu
dents know and abide by the law,
Schneider said.
“We have to keep in mind the
transitory nature of our student
body,” he said.
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