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No lanes for speed demons on wheels

ZACK ROME Reporter @datzackrome

Riding bicycles and skateboards along the Mall is prohibited on campus. However, there are some faculty members who think implementing a bike lane could benefit student health and provide convenient transportation.

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Pierce College’s bike policy states, “No bicycle riding is permitted on pedestrian sidewalks and mall walkways. Riding on sidewalks adjacent to classrooms, library, gyms, gardens, grass areas, or in any other college facilities is also not permitted.

Walk your bike within these areas at all times.”

According to Joseph Perret, computer applications and office technologies professor, establishing a proper bike lane and policy could help students get to class quickly and safely.

“I believe, at the present time, it is illegal to ride a bicycle on campus anyplace except for parking lots and streets of the campus,” Perret said. “It means if you have a class say down at the gym, and you're at the business education building, you can’t ride your bike. You have to ride it to the parking lot and walk the bikes from the parking lot into campus.”

Perret mentioned the bike policy at an Academic Senate meeting last year and said students can be stopped and fined for riding a bike on campus.

“We are too big a campus,” Perret said. “It’s really inconvenient for the students, and we should be promoting the use of bicycles, not demoralizing students.”

According to Perret, it would be convenient to put a bike lane from the Mall to the parking lots. He thinks it would be an ideal place to experiment.

“I don’t remember who it was, but one of the administrators said it was too small,” Perret said. “That if you segregate a bike lane, there won’t be enough room for pedestrians. I just don’t think that’s true.” zrome.roundupnews@gmail.com

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