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UW-Milwaukee Starts Bicycle Sharing Program

Students Say They Hope It Will Lead To Other Bike-Friendly Changes

By
Chuck Quirmbach/WPR

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is the latest university working to get students out of cars and onto bicycles.

The student Senate at the UW-Milwaukee has spent $300,000 in student fees on a bike-sharing program. The campus’s 27,000 students can hop on a Bublr brand bike for up to 60 minutes at a time through next June at no charge. They can also sign up with Bublr for up to five years at a discount.

Student Sen. Dakota Crowell said he hopes students will use the bikes to reduce traffic congestion and parking bills, as well as for exercise. He also hopes university administrators will now make the Milwaukee campus more bike-friendly.

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“We see now that students have access to bikes,” he said. “They don’t necessarily have access to bike infrastructure.”

Crowell said for one thing, more streets on the UW-Milwaukee campus need bike lanes.

Some other universities around the state and nation have also been trying to make it easier to ride a bike to and from school and between classes.