Slot II: 1:00 to 2:00 pm

Room: 218

Presenter/s: Ramon Martinez of the Green Bike Program at Pitzer College

Short Summary: The goal of the workshop is to promote bike ridership on college campuses, connect student activists to professional activists, and cultivate lifelong bicycle advocacy careers. The workshop will address the role of campus programs in moving forward the larger Southern California bike movement and take a specifically hands on look at what programs already exist and how they can be improved.

Presenter Bio: Ramon Martinez is a senior at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA currently writing his thesis on the Sevici bike share program in Sevilla, Spain and his research there working with local bike advocacy group Acontramano.

Presenter Contact Info: ramon_martinez@pitzer.edu

Handouts:

Bicycles and the University Campus
Workshop for the LA Bike Summit, Saturday March 7, 2009 @ LA Trade Tech College

1. University Campuses offer an amazing opportunity to introduce bicycling to the region.
   1. Residential communities, very localized
   2. Already Progressive minds, open to new ways of doing things
   3. Transportation choices made in college affect entire lives of decisions
   4. These riders will go onto important decision making positions
   5. Universities set the tone for large segments of society
2. If we understand these reasons so well why are there not more programs?
   1. Bike spaces can be hard to acquire (shops/storage/lanes)
   2. Universities are populated largely by people who can afford cars
   3. So Cal is the epicenter of car culture (present); few bike resources, little social/cultural capital
      
   4. As upper tier institutions in So Cal, cars worked in the (past)
   5. Paradigms can be hard to break (future)
      
3. We must begin working to establish proactive comprehensive campus bicycle programs
   1. Affect change on administrative level (paid-coordinators)
   2. On a student level (cooperative social workspaces)
   3. Larger campus network
   4. Connections to real-world advocacy groups
   5. More formalized academic writing, thinking, and teaching on bicycles and their role in society.
   6. Realizing that bicycle opportunities aren’t always solely about bicycles (new parking garage plans can be opportunities to inject bikes); ie TDM
4. Let’s identify one issue/area on each campus that is ripe for bicycling and break it down, providing us all with case studies and ways to begin analyzing challenges
   1. Is there access to administration (coordinators/sympathetic personnel)?
   2. Is the issue already on the planning agenda (funding/space)?
   3. Is there student support/organization?
   4. Is there faculty support/classes taught?
   5. What is the next step/how to move forward?

Attendees: calos - usc , vmanine - gmail , m.everri - inventati.org, amyframe - gmail , lopezme - lacitycollege , rsbusby - gmail, sb-ralph - cox.net, erik.griswold - gmail, jeff.spurrier - gmail, velocipedus - gmail , willbreitbach - gmail , blanchette - ucla , ritter.sarahm - gmail, wynne.mcauley - gmail, alison - kendallplanning.com, ramon_martinez - pitzer, mking - ts.ucla, meyer_diane - yahoo, anourafshan - oxy, henry.hsieh - la-bike.org

Links: TBA