Project · Team project
Built for Cars, Banned for Bikes: Micromobility Research Site
Date
July 2026
Team
With Yuvia Cabral, Rut
Overview
The research site behind our SYN 100 project (Seventh College, UC San Diego) on micromobility as climate infrastructure, with Yuvia Cabral and Rut. A single-page explainer plus a working toolkit: the short-trip problem, ridership evidence, UC San Diego as a field site, the barriers that actually stop riders (nowhere to park, nowhere to charge, restricted zones), a peer-campus benchmark, and a policy playbook, every statistic cited. Three pieces of our own fieldwork are published rather than summarised, a 31-response survey across 12 institutions and 4 countries, two structured field observations at Sichuan University and Victor Valley College covering 87 riders, and seven on-site interviews across three campuses, with raw exports withheld, interviewees unnamed, and the one who declined recording paraphrased and never quoted. Ships an interactive trip calculator (car vs bike on cost, CO2, and calories), a resource finder covering all ten UC campuses, a printable flyer, and a share card. It is hand-authored static HTML with no build step, so nothing can import a shared constant, a data/facts.json single source of truth plus a Python drift checker does that job instead: 9 checks, one version string across the worker and the footer, and all 55 published survey figures re-verified against the raw export before every commit. Stale-while-revalidate service worker with a Chrome-dino-style offline ride, and a connection lamp that tests the network rather than trusting navigator.onLine.
One project, 3 sites
Built for Cars, Banned for Bikes
SYN 100 · Seventh College, UC San Diego · Summer 2026
One project on campus micromobility as climate infrastructure, shipped as three separate sites. The research site makes the argument, the game makes you feel it, and the course site holds the coursework both were built for. They are meant to be read together.
- The research siteYou are here
The written argument with every statistic cited, plus our own survey, two field observations, seven interviews, a trip calculator, a ten-campus resource finder, and the policy playbook.
- Library Walk, the game
The same thesis as a playable runner down the real UC San Diego route, where the protected lane ends at the metre the weekday dismount ban begins. The argument you play rather than read.
library-walk.vercel.app - The SYN 100 course siteNeeds a Google sign-in
The Google Site for the course deliverable itself: the project as our section reads it, which is what the two builds above were made to serve.
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