Purdue promotes bicycle-friendly community
President France A. Córdova talks to those attending the Lafayette-West Lafayette Bike to Work Day kickoff event on Friday at Tapawingo Park. (Purdue University photo/Andrew Hancock)
To promote a bicycle-friendly community and celebrate National Bike Month, Purdue faculty and staff participated in the Lafayette-West Lafayette Bike to Work Day on Friday.
President France A. Córdova, Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski, West Lafayette Mayor John R. Dennis and members of campus and the community met at Tapawingo Park to kick off Bike to Work Day with breakfast refreshments and information about biking in the area.
At the event, the president remarked, “This event and other activities planned for the month send a positive message to the community that we care about finding alternative means of transportation and that we care about our environment.”
Córdova encouraged attendees to ride their bikes to work and school not only that day but whenever possible.
The event, which was sponsored by the Wabash River Cycle Club, West Lafayette Go Greener Commission, Alcoa and Indiana University Health, was co-coordinated by Patricia Boling, advocacy chair and board member of the cycle club and associate professor of political science at Purdue; Andrew Hirsch, vice president and century chair of the cycle club and professor of physics; and Bill Arthur, Wabash River Cycle Club member.
Hirsch says, “Each year we are seeing a growing number of people in the community who are committed to commuting via bicycle for a variety of reasons. Whether the motivation is health, the environment or finances, biking to work or school is a quality of life issue for our community.”
