Bicycle Safety Committee

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Bicycle Safety Committee

• WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!Bicycle Safety
  Recommendations Report
• www.rice.edu/bikesatrice
• Website offers
• Full version of the Bicycle Safety
  Recommendations Report presented on March 30,
  2009
• Link to Bicycle Registration
• General Guidelines
• Links to leave feedback

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Bicycle Safety Committee

• Recommendations
• Strengthen the bicycle regulations to not permit
  riding a bicycle through covered walkways,
  arcades, cloisters, and other building walkways
  
• Bell or Yell campaign to be continued on
  annually with an emphasis on the new bicycle
  policy, along with general safety guidelines
• Mandatory bicycle registration
• Read and Acknowledged Bicycle Policy form be
  signed by all bicycle registrants before their
  bicycle registration is processed
• Registration not meant to increase parking
  tickets focus on stolen bikes, abandoned bikes
  and safety.

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Bicycle Safety Committee

• Under Discussion
• Designated bicycle and/or pedestrian pathways
• Working with the City of Houston for additional
  stoplights/signs and paths on public roads
  adjacent to Rice
• Bicycle Repair Shop
• Student driven
• Maintenance classes offered
• Maintain bicycles for bike sharing program
• Bicycle Sharing Program for Rice Community
• Bicycle rentals on a daily or semester basis
• Recycle abandoned bicycles collected by the RUPD
  and utilize the Bicycle Repair Shop to assure
  bicycles are in safe working condition

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Bicycle Safety Committee

• WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!Bicycle Safety
  Recommendations Report
• www.rice.edu/bikesatrice
• Thank you!