Bike Fix-It Stations
Stacey,
The air pumps are installed at both locations. I have attached a picture
James
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Stacey,
The air pumps are installed at both locations. I have attached a picture
James
Japan House and the University of Illinois Arboretum request funding to provide bike racks. Although the Arboretum and Japan House are administered separately (Japan House through the College of Fine and Applied Arts, and the Arboretum through ACES, Japan House sits within the Arboretum and the two units often collaborate on projects. There are currently no available bike racks in the 57-acre Arboretum and Japan House grounds. Japan House is the site of University classes and the Arboretum is frequently used as a resource for classes from units such as Landscape Architecture, Crops Sciences, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and others. In addition, the Arboretum and the Japan House Gardens are a major recreational resource for Illinois students, faculty and staff, and yet currently, there is no bike parking or encouragement for students, faculty and staff to bike to reach these grounds. Currently, bikers are forced to lock bikes to benches, lampposts, trees, and other structures inappropriate for this use and sometimes permanently damaging to the trees or structures. The Japan House offices are located at the site and students routinely ask where they should lock up their bikes. Funding is requested for the installation of two six-loop bike racks mounted on sufficient permeable pavement for easy access and grounds maintenance and relating biking policy signage.
Champaign-Urbana Area Bicycle Map
Distribution Locations on the Illinois Campus
University Locations
Campus Parking:
Public Safety Building, MC-241
1110 Springfield Ave., Suite 201
Urbana, IL 61801Campus Police:
Safety Day
September 11, 2008Campus Recreation
Campus Recreation Center East
Activities Recreation CenterMcKinley Health Center
1109 S. Lincoln Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801Illini Union Bookstore
809 S. Wright Street
Champaign, IL 61820Undergraduate Library
1402 West Gregory
Urbana, IL 61801Illini Union
1401 West Greet Street
Urbana, IL 61801International Student and Scholar Services
400 Student Services Building
610 E. John
Champaign, ILTurner Student Services
Front Desk or Third Floor (Dean of Students)
610 East John
Champaign, IL 61801Alice Campbell Alumni Center
601 South Lincoln Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
University Housing
Allen Hall front desk
1005 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801Busey/Evans Hall front desk
111 W. Nevada Street
Urbana, IL 61801Townsend Hall front desk
918 West Illinois St.
Urbana, IL 61801Wardell Hall front desk
1012 West Illinois St.
Urbana, IL 61801Trelease Hall front desk
901 College Ct.
Urbana, IL 61801Oblesby Hall front desk
1005 College Ct.
Urbana, IL 61801Babcock-Carr Hall front desk
1001 W. Pennsylvania Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801Blaisdell-Sunders Hall front desk
901 W. Pennsylvania Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801Weston Hall front desk
204 E. Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820Taft-Van Doren Hall front desk
1213 South Fourth Street
Champaign, IL 61820Barton and Lundgren Halls front desk
1205 South Fourth Street
Champaign, IL 61820Forbes Hall front desk
101 East Gregory Drive
Champaign, IL 61820Garner Hall front desk
201 East Gregory Drive
Champaign, IL 61820Hopkins Hal front desk
103 East Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801Orchard Downs front desk (Family and Graduate Housing)
1841 Orchard Place
Urbana, IL 61801Sherman Hall front desk
909 South Fifth Street
Champaign, Il 61820Daniels Hall front desk
1010 West Green Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Private Certified Housing
Armory House
1010 South Second
Champaign, IL 61820Bromley Hall
910 South Third
Champaign, IL 61820Europa House
802 West Oregon
Urbana, IL 61820Illini Tower
409 East Chalmers
Champaign, IL 61820Newman Center
604 East Armory Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820Presby Hall
405 East John
Champaign, IL 61820
Cultural Houses
Asian American Cultural Center
1210 West Nevada Street
Urbana, IL 61801Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center
708 South Mathews
Urbana, IL 61801
Champaign County Bikes (CCB) announces “Go by Bike”, the latest version of its Champaign-Urbana-Savoy Bicycle Guide and Map. CCB will begin making it available through local bicycle shops, City and Park District offices, and public libraries. In addition, the map will be distributed by the University of Illinois to students, faculty and staff as well as at CU-MTD’s Illinois Terminal. The map will also be available at Urbana’s Market at the Square, Sat., Sept. 27, from 7am - 12pm.
August 31, 2014
The University Bicycle Ordinance, also referred to as the University Bicycle Code, was updated for campus-specific rules such as bicycle parking and registration, as well as riding bicycles on campus property. Increased enforcement of the code started this semester. This ordinance is included in the Campus Administrative Manual (VIII-22).
Stacey DeLorenzo • Facilities & Services
The University Bicycle Ordinance, referenced in CAM VIII-22. Bicycle Regulations, was approved by the CAM committee on May 15, 2014. The plan was to have enforcement of the ordinance to begin at the start of the Fall 2014 semester. During the fall semester, enforcement would be focused on education, with only safety-related citations being issued.
The link below is the approved version of the ordinance.
Active Choices: the Champaign County Greenways & Trails (GT) Plan has been finalized, and can be found on the CCRPC website here: http://www.ccrpc.org/greenways/documents.php.
Links are currently posted on the CCRPC and CUUATS Homepages, and can always be found on the GT Homepage.
Allerton Park is a valuable but underutilized property owned by the University of Illinois. The Allerton Park Bike Share project intends to improve Allerton Park and make it more attractive to the campus population and the community at large through the installation of a bike share system. In addition to providing an attractive service for visitors, this project will also help promote green transportation when traveling around the 1,517 acre estate.
Providing safe and convenient locations for bicycle parking is one of the key ways the University can support increased bicycle ridership and greener commuting. The goal of this project is to construct a secure, sheltered bicycle parking area for students, faculty, and staff at the Chemical and Life Sciences Building and the Roger Adams Laboratory. These parking structures are modeled after the sheltered bicycle parking currently located at the Ikenberry Commons.
SSC approved the scope and schedule change for the Campus Bike Center.
Campus Rec and Housing have their own protocols for placing digital signage ads. http://www.housing.illinois.edu/Policies/Electronic%20Signage.aspx - HOUSING http://www.campusrec.illinois.edu/sponsors/ - CR
F&S requested that SSC funding from FY14 and FY13 for the Campus Bike Center be allowed to be used for the Campus Bike Center in FY15.
~Morgan Johnston
The attached Manual was developed with students and Amelia Neptune over the last few years. The most helpful part of this document is the liability Q&A that Tina helped create. I cleaned the file up a bit this morning to fix broken links and check for any glaring errors.
To bring you and those copied here up to speed, I’ll share a few points that are happening with bike sharing now.
Please let me know if there is anything I can help you with to get this set up.
Thanks,
Morgan
On May 23, 2014, at 4:07 PM, "McEllin, Tina D" wrote:
Hi Derek,
To start I’m going to refer you to Morgan Johnston, Assoc. Director of Sustainability. I believe Morgan has a draft manual for depts. to use when setting up programs for employees. I don’t know if it will address offering this service to the public so you may have to add language to that effect.
Since you will have the public liability issue I would like to review your draft manual to make sure exposure to the University is controlled as much as possible. Please feel free to call me with any questions.
Thank you.
Tina McEllin, Assoc. Dir.
University Office of Risk Management
247 Henry Admin. Bldg. M-C 337
506 S. Wright St., Urbana IL 61801
PH 217-333-3113
FX 217-239-6744
Check out our website! www.uirisk.uillinois.edu
Please note: Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), any written communication to or from University employees regarding University business is a public record and may be subject to public disclosure.
From: Peterson, Derek Eli
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 3:51 PM
To: Kale, PJ; McEllin, Tina D
Cc: Kevin Donovan
Subject: Allerton Park and Retreat Center
Good Afternoon PJ and Tina-
Joe Vitosky said the two of you might be a good start for me, I need some advice. Allerton Park is going to start a Bike Rental, or Bike Share program. I am interested to know if any other units, or if there is any standard documentation that might assist me through this process. We have researched other local entities that do bike share and rental and so we have some standard language, but we will be offering this to the public, so we need to make sure the University if legally covered. As I type I feel underprepared to ask this question, but I thought you might have some advice for me to help get me started.
Thank you for your time-
--
Derek Peterson
Associate Director
Allerton Park & Retreat Center
University of Illinois
515 Old Timber Road
Monticello, IL 61856
O 217.333.3287, ext. 203
M 217-778-9111
I took some notes from my conversation with Jennifer Bechtel the Program Director from the Innovation and Sustainability LLC who wants to start a bike share. Here are the notes as I took them. I hope this will help you to understand what is going on.
From the Campus Bike Center,
James Roedl
Jennifer from the Innovation and Sustainablility LLC came by to talk about a very small bike share pilot where the students learn to maintain bikes and are encouraged to become bike owning commuters. We discussed the matter and she has a lot of great ideas and would like to meet with us to discuss them. She has questions about maintenance, what bikes to get (she wants quality and ease of maintenance), how to maintain consistency with student turn over, a possible LLC membership or bike share membership with TBP, and many other things. I took notes on our conversation and she is going to try to make an overview of her ideas we can discuss it and find something that can work in the long term. This sounds like something we want to be a part of.
From the Campus Bike Center,
James Roedl
Facilities & Services used funding from the Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) in Spring 2014 t0 purchase incentives to increase bicycle usage. On Bikes on Campus Day, students were given free leg wraps, educational materials, bike maps, and pins if they stopped by the table. In addition, any bikes that were registered were given free bike lights or bike bell. There was also a raffle for those who brought a friend that normally does not bike to win either a free bike pump or bike lock.
Bicycles Ambassadors have decided to use "Hello, I'm a Bike Ambassador" spoke cards to be idenitfied on campus. These cards are being used as a point of reference for individuals to idenitify fellow bike ambassadors but to help those who may have bicycling questions. These cards represent those who believe in the power of bicycles and want to encourage others to use one as well. Look out for these cards around the CU area!
The Campus Bike Center opened for business in May 2010, funded by The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign, a grant from the Student Sustainability Committee, the Center for a Sustainable Environment, and supplementary funding from the Facilities and Services Department at UIUC[1]. The Center offers a hands-on, educational space in which students and community members can have access to knowledge and experience in maintaining and fixing bicycles, as well as all of the necessary tools and products to do so. The Center’s outlined mission is to teach bicycle maintenance, providing access to affordable equipment, support overall safety education, and participate in campus bicycle community outreach2. The Center also has described goals for sustainability; to contribute towards the ICAP goal to reduce transportation emissions by 50% in 2025, support those who use bicycles for transportation, to make bikes a more feasible alternative to motor vehicles on this campus, and to expand these efforts even more through increased outreach and publicity efforts, increased staff capacity, more events outside of the shop to reach new audiences, more refurbished bikes to sell to students, and more courses, workshops, and demonstrations to educate the campus about bikes2.
[1] Neptune, Amelia. Bike Shop Student Sustainability Committee Application. UIUC ICAP Portal. http://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/project-updates/102. 11 Nov 2012. Accessed 8 May 2014.
In 2011, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was recognized as a bronze-level Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) by the League of American Bicyclists. This was in large part a result of efforts by Facilities & Services in cooperation with community partners, including the Bicycle Friendly Cities of Urbana and Champaign and Champaign County Bikes, which is dedicated to making Champaign County the most bicycle friendly county in the Midwest. The Student Sustainability Committee, Illinois Student Senate, and Dean of Students have added funding.
The BFU Bronze status expires in 2015, and campus needs to address several bicycle-related items in order to maintain Bronze status or achieve the Silver designation. Key points, status, timing, and approximate long-term funding needs are below.
Task |
Status |
Timing |
Long-term Funding Needs |
Approve Campus Bike Plan |
final edits underway, then routing for approval from F&S and Campus |
30-Jun-14 |
use existing staff time |
Improve bikeway network |
integrating some of these with street and capital projects, seeking grants |
five to ten years |
approximately $4 Million |
Upgrade bike parking |
over 150 parking locations are not up to acceptable standards |
three to five years |
approximately $400K |
Adopt Campus Bike Code and bike registration system |
final edits underway, then routing for approval; costs include tracking citations, and handling registration |
approve by June 30, 2014 |
$5-$20k/year recurring |
Campus Bicycle Coordinator over programs such as bike sharing and ambassadors |
no funding available, currently managed part-time by a team of F&S |
needed |
$45k/year recurring |
Bicycle Education maps, materials and classes |
currently offered by the Campus Bike Center and Champaign County Bikes |
ongoing |
$5-$10k/year recurring |
Campus Bike Center advocacy, education, and encouragement |
recurring events, in collaboration with Champaign County Bikes and student advocacy groups |
needed |
$50k/year recurring |
With increasing ridership over the last decade and an average of 5,000 bikes on campus during a typical hour, it is clear that bicycle-related needs should not be ignored. Bikeway improvements, parking upgrades, and a new bike code are in progress now; however, to keep the Bicycle Friendly status, campus should allocate $50,000 in FY15 for the Campus Bike Center (a collaboration between campus and The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign).
The Bike Center distributes UI registration stickers; maintains Bike Fix-it Stations; provides a central base for the bicycling community on campus; encourages mode-shift through various events and classes throughout the year; distributes educational resources regarding bicycling; educates students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors about basic bicycle maintenance; and collaborates with campus and community partners in bicycle-related programs. By keeping the Bike Center open, campus can spread awareness about the many improvements, increase safety, sustainability, and health on campus, and continue to offer education and encouragement events this coming year.
Hey Bike Team,
Found this awesome thing online today: http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#6/-120.90000/38.36000/blue/bike
It takes GPS data from Strava (an app people use to log bike and running mileage and share it with friends) and lays it over google maps. Kind of neat to see where people are biking on campus.
Hope you're all enjoying the weather.
Andy