To Davie Akins, Please proceed with the bike parking upgrade on the west side of Art and Design, per the previous discussions we have had. The SSC funding will contribute $11,849.50 from CFOP: 1-629514-814006-xxxxxx-191200-814BIK. - from Morgan Johnston
F&S requested $30,266 funding from the SSC for the Campus Bicycle Shop for fiscal year 2014. The funding was awarded, contingent on not requesting additional funding in future years.
According to the funding award letter, "Because SSC grants are intended as seed or bridge funding, this grant was approved with the understanding that this project will not seek SSC funding in future years."
The fourth annual C-U Bike to Work Day has been set for May 1, 2013. This year the event will be the first of a month-long series of events in coordination with the first Champaign-Urbana Bike Month. Registration, a calendar of events, and more information is available at http://cubiketowork.org/.
Traffic Skills 101 (TS101) will be offered May 4 from 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. at the C-U Mass Transit District, 1101 E. University, Urbana. The course is designed to give cyclists the confidence they need to ride safely and legally in traffic or on the trail. Bicycle safety checks, fixing a flat, on-bike skills, and crash avoidance techniques will be covered. The curriculum is fast-paced and prepares cyclists for a full understanding of vehicular cycling. It is recommended for children and adults over the age of 14.
Pre-registration is required. Contact Cynthia Hoyle at choyle@cumtd.com or (217)278-9059.
Another Cycling Savvy course will be offered April 25. The course will take place in the Natural Resources Building, Room 101, 615 E. Peabody, Champaign, IL. There’s no charge for Cycling Savvy, which is open to anyone 15 years and older. No amount of cycling experience is required.
Cycling Savvy will use a guided discussion, photos, illustrations, animations, and videos to educate attendees about safe and effective biking. The course will be divided into three sections: Knowledge of the Law, Knowledge of Bicycling Safety, and Knowledge of Traffic Cycling Problem Solving. Knowledge of the Law will cover the legal rights and responsibilities of cyclists. Knowledge of Bicycling Safety will discuss the causes of bicycle crashes and how to avoid them. This portion will also show that cycling is safe. The third portion, Knowledge of Traffic Cycling Problem Solving, will assess several traffic cycling situations and how a savvy cyclist negotiates such situations.
More information is available at https://docs.google.com/a/illinois.edu/document/d/1P2umXx0QhfWODK0jFhZ4B4pwp60bf03a5Idqj2WhwI0/edit.
Register for the course at https://docs.google.com/a/illinois.edu/forms/d/1SMNljDSM33Ps420aPNx9ZNroRuKiTSNYzkcmtgiA9b8/viewform.
The draft 2013 Campus Bike Plan is now available for public input. The draft plan will be online during a four-week period, March 4-31, and all members of the campus community are encouraged to review the plan and submit their feedback to TDM. Feedback can be submitted through the online Campus Bicycle Feedback Form through March 31, 2013.
Registration is now open for the six-week Bicycle Mechanic Course offered by the Campus Bicycle Shop! Space is extremely limited, and there is a $30 course fee. The class will run from February 6-March 13 and again from March 27-May 1. Register in person for either session at the Campus Bike Shop today to reserve your spot! For more information contact Ken Sutto, Campus Bike Shop Manager, at 217-300-0296 or kensutto@illinois.edu or come by the Campus Bike Shop during open hours (2 to 6pm Monday -Thursday and 2 to 5:30 Friday).
“So You Want to Work on Bikes” is a six-part course designed to teach you about different types of bicycles, their components, and how to do most adjustments, maintenance, and overhauls on your bicycle’s major systems.
This six-week course runs February 6-March 13 and will be held on Wednesday nights, from 6:30 to 8:30pm at the Campus Bike Shop. There are only five spots in the course, and registration is first come, first served until all five spots are filled. There is a $30 course fee, with all the money going towards The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign. This six-week course will be held again from March 27-May 1, and registration for the second course is also currently open (again, first come first served).
If you wish to register please come by the Campus Bike Shop to sign up and pay the deposit as soon as you can. For more information contact Ken Sutto, Campus Bike Shop Manager, at 217-300-0296 or kensutto@illinois.edu or come by the Campus Bike Shop during open hours (2 to 6pm Monday through Thursday and 2 to 5:30 Friday).
During summer 2012, the UI worked with The Bike Project to update the Facility Use Agreement, and clarify the collaborative relationship between the two entities.
F&S Transportation Demand Management (TDM) continues to improve efforts to make the Urbana campus more bicycle friendly.
TDM’s latest initiative is a “Campus Bicycle Feedback Form” that will allow anyone to share their suggestions for bicycle-related improvements on campus.
The feedback will help inform the Campus Bicycle Master Plan, currently under development, as well as to help determine priorities for bicycle infrastructure and programming improvements in the future.
Feedback topics include bike parking, rules of the road, enforcement, fix-it-stations, and the Campus Bicycle Shop. Respondents will be asked if their comments relate to a specific location on campus, to describe the situation, and then to provide contact information if a follow-up is necessary.
See the Campus Bicycle Feedback Form at http://go.illinois.edu/bikefeedback
The final report for the Bike Sharing Feasibility Study was submitted to SSC. The study recommends the following three tiered approach to bicycle sharing on the Urbana-Champaign campus:
Transportation Demand Management staff designed sketches and submitted a work order request to have formal CAD drawings made for the remaining 9 bike parking locations to be upgraded from donut hole style racks to "U" racks.
On October 23, as part of the 2012 Sustainability Week, Champaign County Bikes and the University of Illinois will offer a FREE Cycling Savvy Course.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
6:30-9:30pm
ARC Auditorium
See attached flyer for additional details.
In February 2012, The Bike Project submitted a funding request to SSC for $39,872. In March 2012, the SSC approved this funding.
During summer 2012, the University and The Bike Project revised their Facility Use Agreement to clarify their collaborative working relationship. The SSC sent a clarification letter regarding this update and subsequently completed a revised award letter.
Transportation staff submitted work order requests to have cost estimates for time and materials for the first five locations to be upgraded from donut hole bike parking to U-rack bike parking. The remaining nine locations need to have CAD drawings produced and apprroved before costs can be estimated.
Amelia, Morgan, and Mike Lyon met this morning to review the current status of this project. Morgan gave an overview of what has happened with bicycling this summer, and Amelia described the LINC class projects for this fall. We will set a meeting with Risk Management, Legal, and Kinesiology to review the departmental bike sharing process. We will also set a meeting with Purchasing to identify the correct process for the purchase of UI owned bicycles.
Campus Bike Project Funding Agreement Spring 2012.pdf Campus Bicycle Shop Updated Agreement Letter September 2012.pdf
Campus Bike Project LTR_MB edits.docx Campus Bike Project March 2012 Funding Award Letter.docx
Campus Bike Project.jpg Campus Bike Project_Expansion of Service.pdf March 2012 Funding Award Letter.docx SSC-Campus Bike Project Letter Final.docx SSC-Campus Bike Project Letter.docx SSC-Campus Bike Project Letter.pdf TBPRevisionsofFacilityUseAgreement.pdf Updated Funding Award and Acceptance Letter_September 2012.docx Campus Bike Parking Overhaul Phase 1_Funding Award and Acceptance Letter_Signed.pdf bike parking phase 009 fasteners.pdf bike parking phase 009 materials.pdf 2011-2012 Bike Parking overhaul extension Letter to SSC.docx Bike Parking Phase_I_Final.pdf bike parking.doc Campus Bike Parking Spring 2012 Award and Acceptance Letter.docx December 17 2013 Bike Parking Letter to SSC.docxThe SSC bike parking award is for $225,000 to install approximately 1,000 new bike parking spaces on existing concrete throughout campus.
The SSC and the Illini Union agreed to support improvements at the southwest corner of the Illini Union, where there are existing “donut-hole” bike racks. These will be removed over the summer and replaced with stainless steel U-loops. Additionally, the F&S Grounds division has agreed to plant an additional tree in that area, which will increase shading for the bike parking.
Through Champaign County Bikes, the University has acquired 22 Varsity Bicycle Racks (which will hold a total of 44 bicycles) from Park-a-Bike in order to run a year-long pilot test of the racks. 10 of these racks will be installed for the year near the Union and the remaining 12 will be distributed in various high-visibility locations on and near campus, to be determined.
The graduate student working on sketches for the Campus Bicycle Network improvements has completed a majority of the campus owned pathways. In some cases, this has included site visits to specific areas, with the Transportation Coordinator and the Landscape Architect for campus.
The SSC-supported Bike Sharing Feasibility Study student intern held a review meeting with the Bike Sharing Steering Committee. The report is substantially complete and will be available this summer. As part of the Feasibility Study, F&S released a bike sharing survey to the campus and surrounding community in late March, and accepted responses throughout April. The Survey received 1,168 responses from students, staff, faculty, retirees, visitors and members of the community. F&S is working with the UI Bikes section of Engineering 315, Learning in the Community (LINC) course, to analyze the data from the survey responses. Students from the LINC course also conducted a focus group with undergraduate students in conjunction with the survey in order to dive deeper into the topic of bike sharing with focus group participants.
In preparation for the third annual C-U Bike to Work Day (BTWD), staff organized fundraising, publicity, volunteers, bike stations’ supplies, registration, and riders’ incentives. The University led the efforts to organize BTWD this year, in partnership with local governments and other agencies. BTWD is an opportunity to encourage and support new bicycle commuters across C-U, including students, staff and faculty of the University, in an effort to create a mode shift toward more bike commuting and less automobile commuting.
SSC granted a funding request from the Campus Bike Project (CBP) which will allow the current part-time hours of the CBP shop manager, a University employee reporting directly to F&S, to be expanded to full-time. The grant also includes a small stipend for part-time student employees to help staff the CBP. Sustainability Staff have been working with CBP representatives to develop the position description and conduct a job search, which attracted over 30 applications. The search committee, which included sustainability staff from F&S, as well as Bike Project volunteers and members, is currently in the process of narrowing the pool down to select a qualified candidate.
The Champaign-Urbana Urbanized Area Transportation Study (CUUATS) prepared a report on the efficacy of the Grainger lighted crosswalk on Springfield Avenue at the Engineering Quad. Due to high maintenance needs, difficulty with the light activation system, and a false sense of security for pedestrians and cyclists crossing Springfield Avenue, this system is not recommended for future locations on campus. Safety for people crossing high-traffic streets can be enhanced with alternative lighted crosswalk systems that are more effective and provide more consistent safety improvements.
During Earth Week, Campus Recreation hosted a free Cycling Savvy course in the ARC Auditorium. This event was the classroom session about safe bicycle riding behaviors.
