The Bicycle Alternative

Friday, November 11, 2022

The announcement below was recently circulated by UCLA Transportation via email:

The Earn-A-Bike program is designed to get eligible employees and graduate students to ride a bicycle to campus as a sustainable, economical, and healthy alternative to driving alone. The program will help support numerous UCLA initiatives and goals such as the Climate Action Plan, Sustainable Transportation Plan, and Healthy Campus Initiative’s goal to make UCLA the “healthiest campus in America."

Participants of the program must complete a mandatory orientation online and cancel or forfeit the right to a parking permit for two years.

Earn-A-Bike provides qualified participants with the opportunity to trade in their parking permit for a free $800 bicycle package from Helen's Cycles in Santa Monica or The Bike Center.

UCLA Employees:

• The enrollment period for employees is November 1, 2022 to February 1, 2023.

• Must have a minimum appointment time of 43.75% or more.

• Must have a minimum of two years remaining in their appointment time.

• Must have held a parking permit for three consecutive months prior to participation.

• Night and Weekend permit holders are ineligible.

• Non-faculty new hires in their 6-month probationary period are ineligible.

• New tenured-track faculty do not have to be a parking permit holder. New faculty are those whose start date was three months ago or less.

UCLA Graduate Students:

• The enrollment period for graduate students is November 1, 2022 to February 1, 2023.

• Incoming graduate students must be enrolled in a 2-year program or more and do not have to be a parking permit holder.

• Current graduate students must have at least two years remaining in their academic program and must have held a parking permit for three consecutive months prior to participation.

• Graduate students living in the 90024 zip code are eligible except those living in Weyburn Terrace.

• Night, Weekend, and Residence Hall permit holders are ineligible.

Other details, including the precise bike packages that are available, can be found at the UCLA Transportation website:

https://transportation.ucla.edu/getting-to-ucla/bike/earn-a-bike.

To hear the text above, click on the link below:

https://ia601402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/earn%20bike.mp3

And there's the song to go with it:

Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GugsCdLHm-Q.