You certainly forget how many people bike when you’re the sole cyclist on the road and the lanes and bike racks are empty during the quiet and long winter months. However, in light of the beautiful warm weather, student bikers have been flocking to the streets in the thousands, clogging the bike lanes, filling up the bike racks, and mixing with car and pedestrian traffic.

Despite this amazing and crowded student return to spring biking, the April 13 Oak St SE Protected Bikeway Open House at Argyle House lacked that student presence, reduced to just four University of Minnesota students to decide the fate of bikeways on our campus.