I was upset to hear from my daughter last night that she had to bring home her heavy duty chain and lock that she uses every week to lock her bike at your station as part of her commute into Sandwell.
It is essential that more people leave the car at home and use bike, bus and train to get into work. Not just because of Climate but also because of finite fossil fuels of which oil is more important for the 101 other essential uses than for burning in transport.
Every working day on 95% occasions from the early 1990s to 2013 when I finally retired, I was using my bike to get into work and for my social work visits as a Brum city council social worker. I set a very good example to you younger workers in relying on bikes to get around.
If you so dislike seeing in use cycle chains and locks on the floor of your station, you must install a bike lock rail at hand height for these unused chain/locks to be fixed to away from the floor.
My daughter already has a heavy laptop in her bike bag and it is totally unreasonable for cyclists like her to have to lug around a very heavy cycle chain and lock, as well.
I hope you will reply to this and reassure me that cyclists will not be penalised by your unfortunate action yesterday, which simply encourages cycle commuters to take to the car instead. For environmental/ecological reasons we have to reduce personal car use.
A shining example of Security officers supporting cycling!
Earlier this decade I cycled into the Millennium Centre in Brum city centre and locked my bike to the cycle stand there. I came back at the end of the day to find my precious bike further secured with the Security officers D-lock, with a note explaining why, and with the phone number for me to ring them to come and unlock their D-lock. How thoughtful and decent of them! Ever since I've been using my own D-lock.
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