Bike Emory: students encouraged to bike the campus

Posted on August 11, 2008 
Filed Under bikes, elsewhere, urban design

In the Autopia of the east coast, another university encourages students to adopt bikes as daily transportation.

Emory University, in suburban Atlanta, is launching Bike Emory — a program offering a full line of new Fuji bikes to students at discounted purchase prices. Unlike Duke and UNC’s bike-share programs, Bike Emory equips students with their own bike. And unlike Ripon College’s Velorution project, Emory students have to buy their own.

The partnership with Fuji, who in turn has developed something it calls Fuji University, bodes well for the future of bicycles in academia. Bicycles have historically been disproportionately represented as valid transportation options on US college campuses (compared to the post-college lifestyle). Now, if universities could find a way to encourage students to adopt life-long cycling habits.

Colleges peddle bikes to car-loving students

Associated Press - August 10, 2008 2:04 PM ET

ATLANTA (AP) - Emory University hopes to make a bicycle the must-have back-to-school accessory this fall.

Emory is selling discounted bicycles to students and faculty, adding bike lanes to campus roads and stocking bikes that can be borrowed for free.

The university in Atlanta is pushing its $250,000 “Bike Emory” initiative, launched a year ago, in hopes of convincing students and faculty that the eco-friendly bikes are a better alternative to gas-guzzling vehicles.

While students still prefer cars, cycling already has a foothold at many colleges, where hefty parking fees, sprawling campuses and limited roads make it tough to travel.

For more about Bike Emory or Fuji University, click here.

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