To mark Galway’s Bike Week Festival, which runs from June 18 to 26, NUI Galway will be making its contribution with a university-wide Cycle to Campus Day.
The Cycle to Campus Day, which is organised by NUIG’s Green Campus Committee, is due to take place on Wednesday June 22. It aims to encourage staff and students to cycle to campus and to reward those who do so regularly.
"The Cycle to Campus event is another sign of the growing popularity of bicycling in NUI Galway,” says Pierre Ludwick of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI ).
More than half of all researchers in DERI regularly cycle to work, and Kevin O’Sullivan, a design engineer with the buildings office at the university is working on a project to install additional secure and covered bike parking, to the direct benefit of this group.
The university is boosting bicycling even further with a number of improvements, including the development of a travel plan, the provision of new bike parking spaces, as well as the promotion and implementation of the Cycle to Work Scheme which has proven to be hugely popular with some 300 staff availing of it since 2009. Additional covered bicycle racks have also been installed in several places around campus, as part of on-going improvements to cycle facilities.
