Sarthak taught Frida & Emma how to collect Eco-Counter data. The data for the month of May 2026 was collected on June 4th, 2026.

The 2nd Annual Bike for Earth Day 🌎 event was held on Tuesday, April 21st, 2026.

At one of our four stations, attendees were able to register their bike and grab bike swag, gear, lights, and a 25-26 Bike-to-Work Day t-shirt. They also had the opportunity to enter a raffle for a free bike helmet or u-lock.

The four stations were located at:

1. Alma Mater
2. Green and Lincoln
3. Ikenberry Commons (Bike Shelter by Flagg Hall)
4. National Soybean Research Center (along Pennsylvania)

Overall, nearly 200 people participated and we gave out almost 175 bike light sets! Many people liked the fix-a-flat kit, bicycle seat covers, and orange snap-bracelets.

Alma Mater Station 2026

Got approximately 22 bikes donated between 5/4 - 5/20.

Thanks!

F&S has the 1966 – 1967 annual report on bicycle lane traffic volumes, counting stations, bicycle surveys, and the number of bicycle racks and parking spaces on campus. Please see the attached scanned pictures. 

Good news is that we’ve been getting more donations from folks that are mentioning the advertising campaign to donate before the end of the semester! Bad news is we’re getting more donations!  Jokes aside, we’ll work on processing/saving what we can from some of the older and less viable bikes. Still cranking out shop builds to keep up with demand as best we can. Staff is dwindling as their finals conclude and/or are rescheduled.

The numbers:

Donations: 10
Visitors: 36
Sales: $499.10
Memberships: 5 for $180
Tires/tubes 21 for $130

Thanks!

On April 27th, 2026 the Illinois Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 3336, which focuses on regulating high-speed e-bikes, e-scooters and other e-mobility vehicles. Currently, on campus Veos are capped below the 28mph limit and are thus largely unaffected by this new legislation.

A link to the full article

We’re burning through our admittedly meager offerings of bikes for sale. This week I’ll work on getting more finished.

This evening is the Bike Project Member Meeting, which I will attend.

Thursday is our last Fix-a-Flat class of the semester.

The numbers:

Visitors: 58

Sales: $825.30
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $175
Memberships: 9 for $270
Tires/tubes: 21 for $171

Thanks!

The Multimodal Corridor Enhancement (MCORE) project requires the Champaign-Urbana Urbanized AreaTransportation Study (CUUATS) partners to monitor the pedestrian and bicycle counts following the completion of the project. This requirement is to understand the increased walking and bicycling activities at the twelve predetermined corridors. Champaign County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) collected pedestrian and cycling counts at these locations before the MCORE project. These twelve corridors/intersections are

1. Birch Street and Green Street
2. Lincoln Avenue and Green Street
3. Goodwin Avenue and Green Street
4. Illini Union Entrance/Green Street
5. Wright Street and White Street
6. Wright Street and Healey Street
7. Wright Street and John Street
8. Sixth Street and Armory Avenue
9. Fourth Street and Armory Avenue
10. Third Street and White Street
11. Third Street and Green Street
12. Locust Street and Green Street

The University has identified other locations on campus to add pedestrian/bicycle counters as well, other than these twelve MCORE corridors/intersections. In March 2020, the first Eco-Counter pedestrian and bicycle counter was installed at the Illini Union location on Green Street.

In summer 2021, the Eco-Counters for the intersections of Sixth Street and Armory Avenue and Wright Street and Healey Street will be installed.

Busy week, as we had warmer weather and thus more folks into the space, as well as Sustainapalooza on Saturday. Weather turned out pretty good! Staff-made and upcycled keychains out of old bike parts were a freebie at the event and a major hit—gave away almost all 50 of them!

This week we’ll try to bump our for-sale bikes into the double digits as the queue has not been kind to us—have run into lots of problems on mostly-finished bikes. But that comes with the territory of used bikes. Can’t save ‘em all!

The numbers:

Visitors: 88
Sales: $1,004.25

Memberships: 13 for $390
Bikes (refurb): 1 for $225
Tires/tubes: 27 for $181

Thanks!