Get your Peoples and Vespas off the Auraria campus.

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2005-10-11 18:03.

Here is s "cute" story from a supporter of ours in Dnnver, CO.

Koskinen would prefer to park more conveniently and safely near the bicycles on the Auraria campus's wide, brick-lined thoroughfares (which used to be streets themselves when the area was a working-class neighborhood a little more than thirty years ago). In fact, he tried at the beginning of the fall semester, when he first got his scooter. But when he was locking it to a bike rack, he was informed by a fellow rider that such an act would quickly earn him a citation, if not worse, from campus police. His kind are banned from mingling with the Treks and Schwinns and Huffys that fill up the racks. He would have to park in one of three motorcycle lots, which cost $2.75 a day, or become part of the Speer art project, overseen by Jonathan Borofsky's sixty-foot-tall alien "Dancers."

"The city will let me park for free just about anywhere," Koskinen says. "If [the campus] allows bikes, then they should allow scooters. The legal definition of both the state and the city is that you can park them at a bike rack."

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