Mar 13, 2009
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Here's the tough part..>How do you sell the idea of waiting at a stop sign to those that aren't in the know so to speak? Usually it's the college students here in town giving us a bad name and blowing through stop lights and riding on the sidewalks. There needs to be an adult bicycle education program...Something I think I heard Bob Robinson say one time.
Very cool . . .
(I'm back!) :)
kev - we do it through FC Bikes - our bicycle program. each year when the freshman come for their orientation, everyone of them gets a bike map w/ the rules of the road printed on the back, safety literature about helmets etc., and the kicker - a free headlight and flashing rear. yup. free. we find that most kids coming to CSU come form a town w/no program or infrastructure (lanes, bicycle activitated signals, etc.) so we start educating them as soon as they get here.
seems to work - accident reports around the campus area have dipped slightly in recent years while the numbers of people using the bike to get to campus has increased.
also, we have been working w/ the po po to enforce the rules of the road in more meaningful matters ... funny how quickly the word trickles through the cycling community when tickets start getting issued for running red lights and whatnot.
Who provides funding for FC Bikes? I'm wondering if our UNL cycling team could do something like this at UNL.
80% federal money w/ a 20% local match - its an air quality grant. heheh. working it ...
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