Bicycle Maintenance Day: September 18th from 11am-2pm Case College Center

Leave Your Car at Home Week: September 20th- 26th

Sustainable Skidmore to partner with Saratoga Healthy Transportation Network for Leave Your Car at Home Week

The third annual Leave Your Car at Home week is scheduled for Sunday  through Saturday , Sept. 20-Sept. 26.  This year, Skidmore College is partnering with the Saratoga Healthy Transportation Network to help promote this initiative throughout Saratoga County.  Designed to reduce carbon emissions when commuters travel solo in their cars, the event will encourage solo drivers to carpool, bike, walk or bus to work if possible. 

Participants are encouraged to register their team at here and identify a team captain.  There will be several friendly competition categories including businesses with: fewer than 5 employees, between 6-20, 21-100 and over 101 employees.  For each category there will be recognition for the business that has the highest percentage of employee participation and the company that avoids driving the most miles during Leave Your Car at Home Week.

People are encouraged to leave their car at home, when going to work or school, running errands or going to church or synagogue.  Leave Your Car at Home Week encourages people to think about how to combine “self-powered” transport (biking, walking etc.) with carpooling, or public transportation.  The Capital District Transportation Authority’s bus schedule info can be found online at WWW.CDTA.org.  Also a new online carpooling tool, from the Capital District Transportation Committee, helps commuters find carpooling buddy at www.ipool2.org.

Saratoga Healthy Transportation Network’s Bike to Work Day last May and Skidmore’s Leave Your Car at Home Week last fall are serving as a springboard for this collaborative initiative.

To prepare for the week, Skidmore College and Elevate Bicycles of Saratoga Springs will host a Bicycle Maintenance Day at Skidmore College on Friday, September 18^th from 11am-2pm at Case College Center.  Saratoga Healthy Transportation Network will also attend the bicycle maintenance event to promote safe bicycling practices.

During Skidmore's Leave Your Car at Home Week last year, over 100 people logged in their miles and avoided driving 5028 miles and emitting 3950 lbs of carbon dioxide.  Collectively, participants saved about $712 in gas during the week.  If this group continued their Leave Your Car at Home Week habits for a year they would reduce their commuting mileage by 231,288 miles, avoid emitting 1.8 million lbs of carbon dioxide and save $327,737 (at $3.50/gallon).

Transportation Options:

Public Transportation: The Capital District Transportation Authority has a bus stop right here on campus in front of the Case College Center. Anyone with a Skidmore ID can ride the CDTA bus line for free. Please click the link below for the bus schedule and map.



Google Map of Saratoga with CDTA Bus Line

Need help planning a trip? CDTA has created an online trip planner!

For frequently asked questions about riding the bus, click here.
 

Faculty/Staff Carpooling: The Campus Environmental Committee has set up a carpooling system with nine e-mail lists, each corresponding to a carpool zone. This carpooling system reduces the number of cars on the road and therefore the amount of emissions released each day.

Carpooling map and email information here.


Student Ride-Share Board: Going away for the weekend? Post your travel information here to coordinate with other travelers. There is also a student ride share board in Case College Center.
 

Green Bikes Program: The Environmental Action Club has created a green bike program, which allows anyone with a valid Skidmore ID to check out a bike for the day from Campus Safety. The bike program is open in the fall and in the spring and offers the Skidmore campus community a fossil-fuel-free way of getting around campus and town.