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The goals of this project are to increase bike ridership and decrease car use on the UCSC campus and in the greater Santa Cruz community, to foster an environment with a healthy car-bike relationship to insure the safety of all persons, and to promote transportation independence and decrease the socio-economic barriers/stigmas created by an auto-centric world.

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The University of California, Santa Cruz campus sees traffic in/out of campus that averages 22,576 vehicle trips per day. When examining the costs of automobile usage to the UC, students, and the environment it is clear that the primary mode of transportation of students and faculty is both unhealthy and unnecessary. While many students may be willing to travel to, from, and around campus by way of a more sustainable alternative- the bicycle- they may be intimidated by bicycling or unable to purchase a bicycle.

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Our approach to this problem is a five credit student-directed seminar offered through UCSC composed of: lectures covering the community and culture of the bicycle; a hands on bike building and maintenance lab; and group projects promoting bicycling such as hosting bike to school week at a middle school, hosting an all inclusive community bike ride, building a bike rack out of recycled bike frames, and working on the bicycle library. In conjunction with the class is the Bike Library, a program which makes bikes available to students for check out at no cost, in order to make sustainable choices accessible to all.

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