GLOB 1100: War Eagle Bike Share

Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Date War Eagle Bike Share The world today is facing many environmental problems. It is essential to conserve and ensure that we do not deprive resources for future generations. Campus sustainability at Auburn University is one of the ways to address environmental challenges. In this Endeavour, the War Eagle Bike Share is a critical initiative for the university to ensure ecological sustainability. By using the initiative, this paper shows benefits of the project to sustaining the campus, the nearby community and the world at large. Auburn University is working to become more sustainable by protecting the present hence meeting its needs and conserving the future. War Eagle Bike Share is an idea that helps to meet the transport needs of the students as well as preserving the environment. It is easy and efficient to use and has flexible parking. It is free to use the bike for the first two hours and a charge of $5 per hour and a maximum of $25 per day (Auburn University | Gotcha Bike). Additionally, it is easy to use the bicycle one can access it from an app and even enables a student to put hold when busy. It is advantageous to a student due to its flexibility of night use, easy maintenance in case of a problem. The problem Auburn University is facing is the issue of health and environment conservation. The university is trying to curb the problem by introducing the project to help control most environmental issues, the general health status of the students. It is easy to observe that the project has positive impacts on the school since there are improvements in reducing congestion, reduction in pollution and time The initiative aims to reduce the number of vehicles brought to campus by students. Additionally, the initiative aims at reducing the demand for automobile usage, decrease the need for parking, increase the general quality of life at campus thus also result in financial benefits. (Gallagher and Rybarczyk 8). Bicycles do not use fuel so they cannot pollute the environment with toxic fumes from gas emissions and this also helps in saving economically. Moreover, bicycles do not produce noise during cycling hence preventing noise pollution, especially during classes. The bikes are reasonable means of transport since they do not cause fuel leakage to the environment. Again, bicycles help reduce congestion at school and even traffic jam heading to school. In observation, there is a lot of environmental pollution at the campus generated from cars fumes, waste, and plastics that needs recycling. The university has come up with a campus sustainability initiative to solve such as providing efficient parking services and more bike hubs places around the school and the neighborhood (War Eagle Bike Share). Moreover, in partnerships with Gotcha bikes and social bikes, there is an introduction of e-bikes to help curb the problem. War Eagle Bike Share continues to grow as its usage is increasing among the students and the nearby communities. More parking place and bike hubs are opening up to balance the demand for bikes (Hurley). Apart from environmental benefits, bike riding also helps students i...