We have replaced the bike repair stations at Campus Bike Center, Altgeld Hall, and in the parking lot C-9 at the intersection of Fifth and Daniels.

The contract with Project 529 was renewed to continue our partnership in the FY24. This will allow our students, faculty, staff, and community members access to a national bicycle registration system.

The contract was signed by Project 529 on 6/27/2023 and it was submitted to Contracts+ for UIUC signatures.

The bicycle repair station at Campus Bike Center was replaced with Saris Public repair station. The installation was completed on 6/26/2023

Attached digital signs was shared with several departments on campus with the following message:

F&S is in the process of removing all abandoned bicycles left on campus over the summer. All bicycles on campus property have been tagged with an orange sticker. If a bicycle still has this sticker by July 5, it will be considered abandoned and subsequently impounded. Bicyclists must remove this tag from their bicycle to keep it active and to avoid impound.

This sign was posted on 6/22/2023 until 7/14/2023 at the following departments:

• Illini Union and Bookstore
• F&S
• BIF
• Campus Recreation
• Beckman
• Architecture Building (FAA)
• Law Building
• CSL
• DCL
• ECE
• Engineering Hall
• IESB
• Labor and Employee Relations
• Loomis Laboratory
• MSEB
• Micro + Nanotechnology laboratory
• NCSA
• Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
• Siebel Center
• Vet Med
• CIF
• Research Park

F&S has received 4 new Ford F-150 Lightnings all electric trucks, bringing the total to 6 Ford Lightnings and 1 Ford e-Transit cargo van for F&S fleet.

We have also installed another level-2 Ford dual point smart chargers on the south side of PPSB and we are working on the installation on another one. We have 2 more chargers to install. The Charging Stations installations are being done using the SSC funding.

All, Pretty chill week overall. Great weather but not very busy. Got some donations from Champaign Cycle last Tuesday.

One student worker that just graduated did a bike trip down the western border of Illinois last week and is headed to Iceland for another biking trip tomorrow. He bike-commutes and also did I4K. Great to see folks explore all the different ways to have fun with a bike.

Another student worker is scaling back here as they were offered more hours at Champaign Cycle. Always good to see staff move on to bigger and better things.

Thanks to Todd for grabbing scrap over the long weekend.

The numbers:

Visitors: 28
Sales: $904.42
Bikes (refurb): 2 for $360
Memberships: 9 for $270
Tire/tubes: 7 for $44

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Campus Bike Center Coordinator

News Channel 20 reposted the F&S announcement regarding the summer bicycle roundup on June 13, 2023.

University announces summer bicycle roundup, remove tags by June 30 to avoid impounding

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WICS) — The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is reminding students about their annual summer bicycle roundup. The university's facilities and services department collects unwanted bicycles on campus after the end of the spring semester.

All bikes left on university property will be tagged with an orange sticker that reads, 'Remove this tag by 6/30/23, or your bicycle will be removed,'" said the university's facilities and services department.

They say any bicycle found with this sticker after June 30 will be impounded. If you currently have a bike in a campus rack, shelter, or parking location and want to keep your bike, remove the sticker to ensure it doesn't get impounded.

To retrieve a bike that has been removed, you can contact bike@illinois.edu with your bike information. All recovered bikes need to be registered before being returned. Register your bike here.

See the article online here: https://newschannel20.com/newsletter-daily/university-announces-summer-b...

Following is some information from University of Wisconsin-Madison regarding their Emergency Ride Home program:

UW Madison's Emergency Ride Home Program is intended to provide another incentive to employees who opt NOT do drive alone to campus, so it is not available to any employee with an annual (car) parking permit. https://transportation.wisc.edu/commuter-solutions/emergency-ride-home/. They use a voucher based system for their ERH program with an annual budget of $1,600. They have less than 2 dozen people use the ERH program every year and they give 3 vouchers for Lyft to those enrolled in this program. UW Madison still sees a desire for this program, because as they said, “the point is that the rides are free.”

• How often an employee can use this service in a year?
  • ERH can be used up to three times every six months.
• How do you fund the ERH program? Do you use your departmental funds or is there another funding source available?
  • ERH is funded through parking revenue
• How often do employees use this program? What is the annual cost that you have to reimburse (in general)?
  • Annual budget is $1,600
• does the $1,600 per year budget includes administrative cost?

  • No, but there essentially are not any administrative cost. The program takes very little time and it is folded into my existing duties

• Who has the administrative responsibility for this program?

  • I do. It is a UW Transportation Services program.

• I understand that the employees need to not pay the taxi and just provide the driver with the ERH form. Does the taxi company file for reimbursement? How does that system look like?

  • We have a contract with the cab companies and they invoice us and include a copy of the form with the invoice.

• I am a bit confused about the Lyft option. The website says that users will get 3 codes to use per six months after submitting the form, but how do you ensure that the users are not using this code for personal use?

  • We assume good faith use. To get the Lyft code you click a box that says you agree to our policies. In theory if someone abused the program they might be subject to disciplinary action (or at least a nasty letter and/or being banned from future use).

• Would you be able to connect me with the Lyft point of contact that you have for the ERH program?

  • Avery Gordon avery@lyft.com

• Employees only get either 3 codes by Lyft or 3 taxi fares, right?

  • The policy is 3 total rides per 6 months, but it would be possible to cheat that and do both (or use more than 3 cab rides). It is up to me to monitor for abuse. In the 16 years that I have managed the program I have had ONE case of abuse.  We literally goes months sometimes with no one using the program and there’s never more than half a dozen rides in a single month.