Please see data for the winter months along with heat maps. Only 100 e-bikes in operation.

Ridership for December:1979

• Users Added: 84
• Reports from app: 49 (Repairs and lock issues)
• Reports from Customer Service: 8 (Bike removal from property)

Ridership for January: 452

• Users Added: 60
• Reports from app: 9
• Reports from Customer Service: 3 (Bike removal from property)

Ridership for February:321

• Users Added: 74
• Reports from app: 0
• Reports from Customer Service: 2 (Bike removal from property)

All, Truncated week for me as I was out of the shop on Wed – Fri recuperating. On Tuesday night I was hit by a car on my bike ride home. No injuries beyond some scrapes and sore muscles. I was very lucky it wasn’t much worse.
Ultimately, we  have a long way to go when someone who rides as defensively and as safely as I do can get hit by a car on a quiet residential street.
This week I’ll be meeting with my newly-hired Program Assistant to work out his schedule and responsibilities. I’ll be picking up more bikes from the warehouse, meeting with a student design group for transportation/climate issues (Design For America’s “Social Hack”), and building/scrapping bikes as needed.

The numbers:
Visitors: 63
Sales: $32

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Manager, Campus Bike Center

Attached are the meeting minutes from the Transportation SWATeam meeting on 9 March 2020. 

The Agenda is as follows:

Recommendations Selection

• Support CMP by increasing pedestrian safety by reevaluating current pedestrian routes and conducting traffic studies.
• Zip-Car Continuity
• UI Ride Survey 
• Teleconferencing Assessment
• Faculty/Staff Vanpool Survey
• Identify Campus Intersections and Mid-block Crossings with high potential for crashes, and develop/implement design improvement strategies.

Future Recommendations

• Working with MTD to promote better bus service to Research Park and I Hotel
• Establish a University of Illinois Foundation fund to support campus efforts to reduce and within ~10 years eliminate use of fossil fuel.
• Sustainable Asphalt Binders

Sarthak Prasad reached out to the communication teams at NCSA, Beckman, ECE, CEE, Hydrosystem lab, CSL, and Will Hall to advertize the workshop. Travis Tate at the F&S CRC team forwarded the flyer to signage@illinois.edu to use this flyer as digital advertising for the event. Sarthak also had these posted at the aforementioned departments and their digital screens.

F&S CRC team also posted the workshop details in the e-week Newsletter on the March 8th edition under events section.

Sarthak met with Evan Alvarez and Allison Haines from MTD to finalize the powerpoint presentation for the workshop, and to confirm the final destination for the demonstration.

We also discussed how to structure the workshop - Sarthak will make the introduction, get a pre-workshop survey, then invite Evan and Allison to make the presentation. Following the presentation, we will catch the 22S Illini from Main and Goodwin to Ceramics Building, make a transfer, catch the 13N Silver or 10E Gold/Goldhopper to Lincoln Square, get off the bus, and return via the same route. Following the demonstration, Sarthak will ask the attendees to fill out the post-workshop survey, thank them for joining and end the workshop.

Evan and Allison agreed with the structure of the workshop. Evan will send Sarthak the final draft of the presentation before the event on March 12.

All, Happy March! Looks like it’s coming in like a lamb for a change.
Still slow around here as far as visitors are concerned. On Friday of last week we got 7 bikes donated, all of which will be junked or passed along to Salt & Light (3 kids’ bikes). That’ll give the student staff something easy to do this week. Elsewhere: Our grinder wheel bit the dust so we’ll be all analog on filing housing and cleaning parts until that is replaced. Less electricity use = more sustainable!
This week I’ve got an interview for a student worker, our Fix-a-Flat class on Thursday and on I’ll be setting up some of my staff to have key-access when I’m away.

The numbers:
Visitors: 45
Sales: $132
Membership: 1 for $30
Tires/tubes: 4 for $49

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Manager, Campus Bike Center

Women in Engineering (WIE) Grainger First-Year Experience (GFX) student, Abby Culloton, is working with Morgan White and Sinead Soltis at F&S to lead the integration of SmartWay on campus, pending the completion of the EPA SmartWay Affiliate Agency agreement for campus.  Abby will do this as part of her class project, and in support of campus sustainability.

Final design for the bike shelter at Flagg Hall and the IFP thereof was completed.

All, Business as usual last week. The Scottish dude finished his build-a-bike. He only came in, too, because his German friend did a B-a-B as well and talked it up. Nothing beats good word of mouth. He was positively giddy about the whole thing and never got discouraged or frustrated by the process. The highlight for me was bending back a canti brake boss using the hole in the end of a crescent wrench. It’s not perfect but it’s functional enough. That’d make a good motto for us.
I’ll head to the warehouse this week to grab a few more bikes. I’ll also schedule a couple training sessions with my staff to refresh on some repair basics .

The numbers:
Sales: $428.50
Bike (refurb): 1 for $180
Bike (B-a-B): 1 for $30
Memberships: 3 for $90
Tires/tubes: 4 for $17

Thanks!

Jacob Benjamin
Manager, Campus Bike Center