ECOLOGY & NATURE

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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PLANNING ELECTRIC BIKE SHARE PROGRAM

TREE HUGGER - The University of Washington is teaming up with Intrago to
create an electric bike share program for its Seattle campus. The
self-rental bicycles will work much like traditional bike share
programs: users are given a special pass to unlock bicycles from
stations located throughout campus, and then return them just as easily.
The only difference between this system and a more conventional one is
that the bikes have an electric assist for hills and longer distances,
circumventing one of the more common excuses for not riding a bike. It
is unclear what kind of battery the bicycles make use of. . . The pilot
system is being funded by a grant from the Washington State Department
of Transportation in the hope that "corporate campuses, vacation
destinations and high-density urban and public transit locations" will
see the value of these systems.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/12/university_of_w.php

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