No more car for me...

Good job! I've been cycling everywhere for 20 years. My daughter is in college at ASU - no car. My son is a Senior in High School. Bikes every day, even in Winter. We have 1 car, and it usually stays home with my wife, and even she cycles a lot.

 

USF is notorious for it's terrible parking situation.

It's one of the biggest schools in the country, in a crowed part of town, without nearly enough on-campus housing.

So you've got 40,000+ kids driving to school everyday. What a nightmare.

They need more on campus housing. And badly.

 

Even when i owned a car, my bike was my main transportation. I haven't owned a car for over a year, and it is the best thing i've done in a long time. It is not only the obvious benefits, but also the little things, like not having to ever deal with the DMV, or incompetant mechanics, or parking. This summer i rode my bike from Albuquerque to and around Colorado, it was great.

 

Nice! I did 2 tours this Summer, but both within the state of Colorado. I'm curious about your route. I may be interested in a similar trip, going the other way!

 

Update: Now that I've been cycling to school for almost a month, it's jump started me being active. I love it! Now I pedal to school and hour and a half early and go to the gym (the one on campus is huge!) Monday-Thursday.
Oil Free and Happy I love your jackets in your sig. Very cool.

 

Well i went on a complex trip, from April 20-Sept 23, involving 2 bikes, hitchhiking, Greyhound, regional bike on bus (Glenwood-Aspen), hotspring touring and extended camping, music festivals, Rainbow gathering, town crashes, backpacking, CDT hiking, dayhiking..........
Since i had hybrid bikes, i took several forest roads and backroads.
The most easily describable bike rides were from the Rainbow gathering near Columbine, CO to Grand Junction via Steamboat, Wolcott and the I-70 corridor, though not the Interstate when possible. And from Pagosa Springs to Albuquerque via 84, 68 and the I-25 corridor.

 

usf, that's awesome! plus, living in florida, you can bike year-round. congrats!!

 

I lived in Tampa for about 10 months on a job assignment. We had a rental car, but I left that with my wife and kids, and I bought a cheap bike and rode to work every day. It was about a 7 mile ride. I enjoyed this until somebody pulled right out in front of me, and I ran into the side of her car. I was lying in gutter, stunned. She opened her car door, looked right at me, closed the door, and drove off. That was the end of the commuting in Tampa. The bike was totalled. I think we left about a week later, anyhow.

 

Awesome! Especially if you live on campus, why drive? Its pretty much crazy in a lot of aspects. So good for you!
I just recently bought a bike at a thrift store for $30!
I go to community college so I can't bike to school yet but it will definitely be handy when I live on campus.
Thank you for being one less car that is bad for our environment!

 

The thing about campuses is that it is actully better to cycle.

 

I'm moving out of my parents' house on jan 1 and I have to leave my car with my sister, so I'm buying a bike. I will only live 5 blocks from campus, so i don't need a car.

 

Way to go!
Even moderate republicans support bike riding.
http://gov.state.nv.us/EALERTS/eAlerts/2006/Governor_eAlert_2006-05-15.htm

 

awesome

 

which usf campus? Tampa is tricky getting around someplaces: if you stay on the road you might get run over but if you cut thru neighborhoods you might get jacked.
I've been riding as long as I've been on my own and love it; just got a trek hybrid and it's a pleasure; except that people want to steal my bike. They ususally do

 

Tampa Campus. My bike was a $25 thrift store bike. No one will try to jack it. Plus I ride kind of fast. No problems like that in my neighborhood anyway. Mostly USF students in my community. I've almost got hit many times tho walking the bike across in crosswalks because ppl love to run red lights. erg. im careful

 

i wish I could never drive and just have a bike, but I live in a wierdly spread mid sized town. I have no side walks on my street and no way to carry my three kids that way so I have to have a car. there is no way I could get 2 to school one to day care and go the 15 miles to campus walking or on a bike and our bus system would take me 2 to 3 hours to get to all of those places. a very sad car dependent world I live in. I guess I'll have to try to afford a better car like a hybrid when I graduate. much love to you guys who can transport yourselves this way.

 

Bike safety is definately an issue, tho cars aren't all that safe either. In a strict accident sense, bikes may be slightly more dangerous than cars, but in the overall lack of exercise in the car culture sense, biking is probably healthier. Frankly i am more concerned with other peoples safety, and not only are bikes far less polluting, there is virtually no chance i will kill or injure a pedestrian with my bike. About 5,000 pedestrians are killed each year, many of them young children. I would rather die than kill a child.

 

I've been looking around for places and the nice non central places are not good for bicycle, nor is being most places up north (Boulder and Denver are ok because the snow doesn't stick around.)

 

bicyclefriendlycommunity.org has recently updated their list:

http://www.bicyclefriendlycommunity.org/AllBicycleFriendlyCommunities.htm

And they also list some more new cities on a separate page. There are some obvious omissions like Durango and Moab. I thought Glenwood Springs was pretty fine this summer. Unfortunately cities have to apply to get on this list, so even Madison wasn't on this list till this year. Santa Fe, which has never been very bike friendly, is making some progress lately. Here is a pretty amusing though also disheartening article about a decidedly unfriendly city:

http://www.thelantern.com/media/sto...e200611021212&sourcedomain=www.thelantern.com

 

well, Boulder CO has fantastic bike paths but also has the highest # of cars in the country so...But yeah, Glenwood Springs was ok I guess, has that long path outside of town. I thought I was going to bike up to the blm land going towards Carbondale, never made it, those uphill downhill things wiped me out; ended up staying at the hostel, the campsite by the train and a little cabin out by the mall (which isn't bike friendly, had to ride on the highway to get to town.