While CU Bike Share’s racks may not be fancy enough to prevent you, FFS don’t park your bike on them!

 

Dear Bwog,

I noticed that there are a bunch of nice-looking “Bike Share” bikes parked in front of Lerner. How do I get one?

Sincerely,

Bikeless@Butler

 

Dear curious bikeless biker,

2013 seems to be the year of the bike share, with new programs cropping up here in New York City and in San Francisco. As it turns out, the bikes in front of Lerner are from Columbia’s own bike-sharing program, run by none other than the EcoReps!

EcoReps’ Bike Share goal is to provide Columbia students with a “healthy and green transportation alternative” — for free. To get into this program, all you have to do is attend a 45-minute training session sometime in the next few months. Bikers who participated in the pilot program last spring are grandfathered in.

Starting on Monday 6 September 2013, trained bikers will be able to check out the keys to their noble steed from the Hartley Hospitality Desk every day starting at 10 AM — no questions asked as long as you return it before they close at 7 PM.

Plans for more bikes and a web-based checkout system are in the works, and will be implemented if enough people are interested. Let’s face it, though: Bwog is just happy that Columbia’s Bike Share doesn’t cost more than the subway.

You can sign up for a training session here and find Bike Share on Facebook or by email.

And please don’t park your own bike in the Bike Share rack. Bwog is watching.

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