${gotBlog.title}

Environmental advocates push bike-sharing in River Falls

Posted by Tom Held of the Journal Sentinel on Sept. 14, 2011

Bike share

Advocates looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in River Falls have begun pushing for a bike-share program in the college town near the Minnesota border.

The River Falls Journal reports on the initiative led by Ian Johnson, a research fellow with the St. Croix Institute for Sustainable Community Development at UW-River Falls.

He told the paper:  “I've seen bike-share models around the country popping up and thought it would be a very cool idea for River Falls.

"There is a pretty progressive attitude around town. The presence of the university is no small part of that.”

Johnson cited two examples to consider - Nice Ride in the Twin Cities, and B-Cycle, the Trek driven enterprise that launched in Madison in May.