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BICICAMPUS (CAMPUSBIKE)
BICICAMPUS
was launched in 1993 by the University of Alicante
with the support of Miguel
Indurain and Perico
Delgado (first-class Spanish cyclist), who led a popular and spectacular
march towards Alicante city in order to CLAIM
the right to a bike lane, still unsettled. A project designed
by professors Ivors Samuels and David Smith from Oxford
Brookes University , was handled to the mayor of Alicante. Nevertheless,
the University of Alicante has been trying to promote the usage of the
bicicle as it happens in other well-known university campuses.
This is the reason why several bike's parkings were installed next to the
university buildings and crash helmets were distributed to those students
cycling to the campus. During our so-called Week
for Health, organised by the Nursing
University School, more than 8o bicicampus were delivered to
be used for displacements within the campus; security keepers are currently
handing out cycling clips and, moreover, new cycling routes connected to
the campus (Playa Albufereta-Campus de San Vicent, for instance) have been
designed to avoid cyclists getting involved with traffic. .
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The
AutoColega
campaign,
whose adhesive is shown below, is mainly intended to convince the university
community to make the best use of their vehicles by sharing them with other
occupants, trying to avoid the use of single-drivers vehicles. By doing
so, we would save petrol as well as unnecessary traffic jams. This simple
idea would be easily seen under the slogan: "Let's share my car today,
tomorrow will be yours".
