TheScooterScoop

Man… this blows for our fellow riders at UW Madison.

If you click on the title link you’ll see a picture to go with the story… and no moped in sight… just a Spree and some other skinny scooter that I don’t recognize. I’m sure they meant Scooters and mopeds and nopeds… and anything that the man disapproves of.

The Daily Cardinal – Moped owners must buy permits to park on campus next fall: “With the rise of mopeds on campus over the last three years from a few dozen to nearly 900, UW-Madison Transportation Services has decided to require every moped owner to purchase a $55 parking permit, beginning next semester.

“In the past, we had never really managed mopeds,” UW-Madison Transportation Administrator Gordon Graham said. “They just kind of appeared in the space of a couple or three years.”

After approval last month from the Campus Transportation Committee, these mandatory sticker permits will go into effect Sept. 1.

They will be available on the Transportation Services website starting Aug. 1, and students will be able to park anywhere on campus with them.

“We built something in the neighborhood of $60,000 worth of moped parking facilities. In order to recover some of that cost … we thought that a 
permit would be reasonable,” Graham said.”