Washington State University, Pullman, Wash., students wanted a bike sharing program, an environmentally friendly transportation alternative, on their campus. These increasingly popular programs place a fleet of bikes in a defined geographic area–an urban location, corporate center or a campus–that can be borrowed or rented at convenient points for short periods of time.
Initially the students agreed to a pilot system where they could check out a bike at the Student Recreation Center or the Union Building, says Jamie Bentley, environmental wellbeing coordinator at the university. For the pilot program the school purchased 40 Trek bikes and placed them at those two centralized campus locations for check out.
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