{"id":3987,"date":"2019-09-12T19:47:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2019-09-12T19:47:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T19:47:42","slug":"colorado-college-partners-with-pikeride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2019\/09\/12\/colorado-college-partners-with-pikeride\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado College Partners With PikeRide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Miriam Brown \u201921<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No car? No problem.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado College Office of Sustainability just announced a partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradocollege.edu\/offices\/sustainability\/pikeride.html?\">PikeRide\u00a0<\/a>that will give some students free access to the bike-sharing service. PikeRide bikes typically cost $1 to unlock and $0.10 per minute to ride, but for any CC students with demonstrated financial need, the fee to ride will be <a href=\"http:\/\/application\/\">waived<\/a>. And, all other students, faculty, and staff get a discounted rate of $99 to ride up to 80 minutes every day for the entire academic year.<\/p>\n<p>For Mae Rohrbach, paraprofessional in the Office of Sustainability, the benefits of this partnership are threefold: It ensures that students, staff, and faculty have equal access to alternative transportation; it encourages the use of a more sustainable transportation that does not release carbon emissions while riding; and it works with downtown Colorado Springs to make the city more walk- and bike-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColorado College saw an opportunity provided through the Downtown Partnership roughly four years ago, and here we are today with the introduction of the new electric-assist bikes and a possible expansion of PikeRide service on the horizon,\u201d says Rohrbach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Miriam Brown \u201921 No car? No problem. The Colorado College Office of Sustainability just announced a partnership with PikeRide\u00a0that will give some students free access to the bike-sharing service. PikeRide bikes typically cost $1 to unlock and $0.10 per minute to ride, but for any CC students with demonstrated financial need, the fee to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2019\/09\/12\/colorado-college-partners-with-pikeride\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Colorado College Partners With PikeRide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":3988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2019\/09\/PIkeRide.jpg?fit=1840%2C1048","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3990,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions\/3990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}