The Campus Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC) met on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 from 1 - 2:30 p.m.. Following was the agenda for the meeting:

• Introduction – Morgan White (5 minutes)
• Old Business
  • F&S TDM Status Update – Stacey DeLorenzo and Sarthak Prasad (25 minutes)
  • Lincoln Ave Corridor Study (North of Florida Ave) – CCRPC (15 minutes)
  • Bike Share Updates– Sarthak Prasad (5 minutes)
• New Business
  • EV infrastructure research – Bhagyashree (10 minutes)
  • E-bike research – Bhagyashree (10 minutes)
  • Air Travel Emissions research – Karina Jang (10 minutes)
  • 2025 Transportation Survey – Sepideh Azizi (10 minutes)
• Community Updates – (5 minutes) 

Please see attached the slides from meeting. To view the recording, please go to https://uofi.box.com/s/f9vq8w52a4tjmu154ecuspfyfjqb9784.

Friday was a busy day. First up was the quad event, which despite the rainy weather earlier in the day, ended up being a dry time and quite popular. We’ve had 2 – 3 people come by CBC after having been at the Quad event, so it’s definitely getting some new folks aware of our space. Our open hours were not crazy busy on the bike side of things, but our gear rental partners were positively slammed, which created some logjams at the entrance—nothing we couldn’t handle!

This week we have our last Instructional Class of the semester, and unfortunately the lead staffer for that program is graduating. Replicating that staffer’s expertise and enthusiasm for the work will be a tall order.

Tonight is the Bike Project Members’ Meeting, which I’ll be attending.

Warm weather this week, so we’ll likely be busy.

The numbers:

Visitors: 60
Sales: $1,005.25
Memberships: 9 for $270
Bikes (refurb): 2 for $360
Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50
Tires/tubes: 14 for $111

The Alma Mater Plaza welcoming center for Bike for Earth Day was moved to Graziano Plaza (plaza between the Engineering Hall and Everitt) because of a scheduled climate march and the March for Science rally. Morgan White was able to reserve Graziano Plaza for volunteers to hand out Bike Lights and Bike Month T-shirts to attendees. For future Bike for Earth Day events, it may be easier to move the welcoming center locations to actual reservable spaces.

Please see attached.

Read this announcement online - 
 

Join the celebration of Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22, by biking around campus, grabbing a free set of lights, or registering your bicycle!
As part of the university’s Earth Month events, the first-ever Bike for Earth Day will feature three welcoming centers open from 3 to 7 p.m. at:

• Alma Mater Plaza 
• Hallene Gateway (intersection of Illinois Street and Lincoln Avenue)
• Activities & Recreation Center (east side driveway)

      🎉 Bike Light Giveaway included! 🎉

Check out the above link for more details

On Thursday was another installment of our instructional class, which went well. Friday was our first Bike Center on the Quad event, which also went well. We also received our first end-of-semester/graduation donation.

We have a handful of bikes in the queue which we’ll finalize/safety check this week.

The numbers:

Visitors: 39
Sales: $327
Memberships: 6 for $180
Tires/tubes: 4 for $25

Things are picking up and to meet demand, we’ll work on getting some more bikes for sale. We did have nice 3 speed Build-a-Bike finished this week. 

Hoped to have a few more bikes done this last week but all of the ones I safety checked failed and then some—damaged wheels/broken components—but such is the plight of repairing old bikes. 

Tonight is the Bike Project Monthly Members Meeting. 

This week is our first Bike Center on the Quad Day. Fingers crossed for good weather and a good turnout!

The numbers:

Visitors: 59
Sales: $328
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $150
Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50
Memberships: 2 for $60
Tires/tubes: 5 for $24
 

We were closed last week for Spring Break. Used the quiet time to crank out a few more bikes. We’re hovering around double digits in the for-sale department. With the final batch of bikes out of the barn, I’ll be able to do an earnest inventory and have my staff sort bikes between For Sale/B-a-Bs. A little clarity in that realm will hopefully elp move bikes along a little quicker.

This week we will resume being open Mon – Fri.

The following numbers are from 3/10 - 3/14:

Visitors: 64
Sales: $1,196.15
Bikes (refurb): 3 for $650
Memberships: 10 for $300
Tires/tubes:  10 for $60.75

This speaker series brings together researchers on campus whose work touches on environmental impacts (e.g., air quality, water quality, weather patterns) on health, to share their current research and to foster discussion and collaboration. This week, professor Warren G Lavey will talk about how "Hospitals Should Help Address Climate Change Through Community Health Needs Assessments."

March 25, 12 pm • Zoom

Center for Health Informatics • IDPH, University of Illinois OSI

CHI Speaker Series Examining Environmental Impacts on Health: Warren Lavey