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Via 1World2Wheels comes this great report of Ripon College’s new Velorution Project.
Ripon is asking incoming Freshmen in ‘08-’09 to sign a pledge that they won’t bring a car to campus during the school year. In return, each student who signs gets a new Trek bike, a helmet and a lock. Matt and I both serve as university administrators in our day jobs, and I think I can speak for us both when I say we approve!
Nice work, Ripon! All we do is give incoming Freshmen a shiny new Macbook…
3 comments for this entry ↓
1 Levi // Feb 26, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I’d take a new Trek or a Macbook over the lame Thinkpad I got anyday!
That’s a sweet deal, though. That would be cool if they did something like that more often, especially at eco-conscious schools like University of New Hampshire (freshman can’t even have cars, but hey, free bikes are great!)
2 Matt // Feb 27, 2008 at 5:52 am
This from their web site . . .
To minimize vehicular traffic on campus, Ripon has systematically moved campus parking from the interior of the campus to the exterior in an effort to make car travel less convenient.
I AM SO DOWN!
3 Ryan // Feb 27, 2008 at 8:04 am
They didn’t give me anything either time I enrolled in college.
I did ride my bike on campus for a while. Sophmore year I broke the funnybone (ouch!) in my left arm in a bike wreck and that ended my ‘cycling career’ until about a year ago when I got back into it.
Sounds like a great program they have implemented to get more people riding.
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