You’ll never bike alone again
Yale students who are looking to shorten their transit time between classes but are not ready to fork over hundreds of dollars to one of New Haven’s traditional bicycle shops may have a new option, thanks to Cris Shirley ’10: trading labor or a small amount of cash for a used bike from the New Haven Bike Collective.
Customers can pay for a used bike, trade in an old bike, learn how to fix their own or donate labor by fixing bikes or even helping to design the Collective’s Web site.
“Anything … you can do with us can be an exchange of labor,” Shirley said.
Shirley, a...
This is great story of collaboration between a student from Yale and one from SCSU. These kind of collaborations can only enrich both campuses and the administrators should take a cue from those running the bike collective. Great story - thank you1
just for the record, cyclists are not supposed to "compete with pedestrians for valuable sidewalk real estate" (it is illegal to bike on sidewalks in new haven/most of CT)
please visit www.cityofnewhaven.com/streetsmarts
for more information on how to navigate the city no matter what mode of transportation