All, On the whole, an uneventful week. We tabled at Green Quad Day last Friday, but other than that it was business as usual. A local bike shop is scaling back their operations, and we got a lot of donations as a result, including NOS handlebars, fenders, and tires. Always welcome! There is, too, the potential for more demand with one less option locally for folks to fix their bike. We’ll see how that plays out over time.

Tonight is the Bike Project Member Meeting, which I’ll attend.

The numbers:

Visitors: 42
Sales: $362
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $170
Memberships: 1 for $30
Tires/Tubes:  9 for $72

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator

Meeting from 4/5/2023

Summary: Ethan and Sarthak met via zoom where they discussed the work on the plan that Ethan has done so far. They also discussed the thorough plan for the next year to describe to the stakeholders, in regard to their involvement with the 2024 plan. Ethan is expected to respond to stakeholders by next week, add onto the plan (mainly the executive summary, goals & objectives, introduction, and planning process sections). Ethan will send Sarthak separate emails about his Urban Planning presentation on their work for school, and request for GIS information.

Meeting from 3/29/2023

Summary: Ethan and Sarthak met briefly via zoom (Ethan was out of town dealing with a family emergency so there was not much to discuss). Ethan is expected to make a Google Sheet with stakeholders' information and responses, a sheet of timeline for the planning process, and a document for the 2024 plan.

All, Business as usual over here. We’ve almost fully occupied the front lobby space with for sale bikes—which will likely diminish a bit this week with the warm weather. Fingers crossed.

This upcoming Saturday we have a partnering event with the Urbana Parks District to help with a bike fix-it day from 10  - 12p in Urbana at the Phillips Recreation Center. Will be nice to get off campus and help folks where they are—or maybe closer to where they are. The event was successful last year and will hopefully be so again this year. Although, offsite repairs always mean you can’t bring every tool for every possible repair, which is a strong impulse.

We’ve hit a bit of a stride with some volunteers and staff stripping junk bikes. This, of course, has the added bonus of creating a surplus of used 26” tires. We’ll have no trouble working through those in due time. Accordingly, I’ll be grabbing a few more from the warehouse this week.

The numbers:

Visitors: 44
Sales: $529
Bikes (refurb): 2 for $240
Memberships: 1 for $30
Tires/tubes: 8 for $31

Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator

Meeting notes from 3/22:

• LRTP 2045 review it
• They are starting work on 2050
• Subject line for email: Name of Person/Organization
• Expect 5-7 meetings (Landscape Architects, SPO, Transportation iCAP team, SSC, maybe League of American Bicyclists, Champaign County Bikes, RPC)
• The rest will be communicated with through emails and/or CTAC
• April 27th, morning meeting with CTAC
• Start document for 2024 Campus Master Bicycle Plan (start outlining sections i.e introductions, executive summary, etc.). Use the 2014 plan as a template. 
• In April we will start filling some of the information on the 2024 plan (Introduction, Planning Process).
• In April will present to Bumsoo Lee and DURP to show progress

Meeting from 3/10:

Sarthak and Ethan met via zoom to discuss plans for the rest of the semester. Ethan is to finalize the email template which they will begin sending out after Spring break (last two weeks of March). Ethan is also to finish readings mentioned by Stacey by the next meeting in two weeks. 

Notes: 

• Be ready for reach out process, email ready, finish readings, you will hear from us in coming months, there will be future stakeholder meetings, feel free to share some ideas over email now, attach 2014 bicycle plan and 3 reports (at least the 2019 and 2022 one) (link it in email itself). 
• Start report for undergraduate project early April.

Meeting from 3/1:

Sarthak and Ethan met via zoom to reflect on their meeting with Stacey. Ethan and Sarthak made note of stakeholders that she suggested that we reach out to and other readings to review. Ethan is to draft an email for reaching out to stakeholders once we return from Spring Break. Ethan is also expected to review RPC Bike Plan, Campus Master Plan, Crash Data, and TDM Plan.

Notes:

• Readings to do:
  • RPC Bike Plan
  • Campus Master Plan
  • Crash Data
  • TDM
  • APBP and League of American Bicyclists we will reach out to
  • Look at TDM report for Bicycle Friendly University updates
  • TDM to be published this year
• Starting introductory email template and we would greatly appreciate your input and guidance when developing plan
• Give info on what the old plan was and progress
• Suggestions on adding more 
• Ethan: start draft of email 

Please see the attached the article by Ethan Simmons of the News Gazette published on March 20, 2023. You can also read the Just Askin' | Veo bikes or scooters? online.

Veo is starting to redeploy vehicles on campus in the coming weeks! They plan to begin redeploying bikes tomorrow, 3/16, with a goal to reach full deployment (750) by 4/8.