Spring Break
Group Works To Develop Community Bike Program For Students
Lindsay Fetzner
Issue date: 2/27/08 Section: News
The group hopes to develop a bike network that would include the road, bike paths and bike lanes. The addition of bike racks around campus is also being considered, as is overnight commuter-lot storage, according to Mortell.
Some of the options for the bike program on campus would be allowing students to swipe their ID cards to rent bicycles. A temporary charge would either be put on their account, or applied to their account if they did not return the bicycle.
Other ideas included offering bike rentals from the Student Union, where students could loan them out for certain periods of time if they signed a waiver. A control network with electronic swiping at various parts of campus was also brought up at last night's meeting.
Members of ITE, PIRG and EcoHusky are going to start compiling research they conduct on other schools that have created similar bike programs. In addition, a cost-benefit analysis will be done to see what the best option will be for UConn, which will involve research before any final plan is implemented.
A bike program existed on the UConn campus roughly 30 years ago, but was unsuccessful when many of the bikes ended up in Mirror Lake, Mortell said.
Contact Lindsay Fetzner at
Lindsay.Fetzner@UConn.edu.
Some of the options for the bike program on campus would be allowing students to swipe their ID cards to rent bicycles. A temporary charge would either be put on their account, or applied to their account if they did not return the bicycle.
Other ideas included offering bike rentals from the Student Union, where students could loan them out for certain periods of time if they signed a waiver. A control network with electronic swiping at various parts of campus was also brought up at last night's meeting.
Members of ITE, PIRG and EcoHusky are going to start compiling research they conduct on other schools that have created similar bike programs. In addition, a cost-benefit analysis will be done to see what the best option will be for UConn, which will involve research before any final plan is implemented.
A bike program existed on the UConn campus roughly 30 years ago, but was unsuccessful when many of the bikes ended up in Mirror Lake, Mortell said.
Contact Lindsay Fetzner at
Lindsay.Fetzner@UConn.edu.
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