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Campus Bike Plan Workgroup

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Background   Project Goals   Campus Bicycle Plan Survey Results

Workgroups   Recommendations (Fall 2005)

Campus Bicycle Plan Support Ride   Event Photos   Bicycling Information & Safety

News Highlights

• Bicycles Benefit Many
  (UConn Daily Campus - April 15, 2005)
  
• Ride to Raise Campus Bike Awareness
  (UConn Daily Campus - April 13, 2005)
  
• Ride to Raise Awareness of Campus Bicycling Plan
  (UConn Advance -- April 11, 2005)
  
     

 
Background

In an effort to assess the current attitudes towards bicycling on campus,

the Institute for Transportation Engineers (ITE) student chapter on campus (see workgroup list below for member names) collected over 2100 surveys this past fall from UConn faculty, staff and students.  After compiling and analyzing the resulting data, the ITE made a formal presentation to the Univeristy Building & Grounds Committee as well

as the Master Planning Advisory Council (MPAC) to include bicycling in the future planning of the University. 

CBN Plan Team Presentation to the MPAC  (May 5, 2005)

Proposed Campus Bicycle Plan Network (May 2005)

1. Develop a Bike Network (Roads, Paths, Lanes) -- 73% of respondents supported
2. Add Bike Racks closer to buildings -- 68% of respondents supported
3. Add overnight commuter lot storage -- 64% of respondents supported
4. Create ‘Free Bike’ Loan Programs -- 62% of respondents supported
   
   
   

To further raise awareness around this important sustainability issue, the students of ITE and the students of the EcoHusky Student Group are going to be holding a Uconn Bike Plan Support Ride on April 14, 2005.  The support ride will be open to anyone who is interested in participating -- University students/staff/faculty as well as local community members -- and will begin behind Horsebarn Hill.  The actual course for the ride is still being determined.  The Office of Environmental Policy and the individuals involved in this event hope that this gathering of cyclists will help raise awareness of the need for future plans to include accommodations for cyclists.  It is our belief that, expecting cyclists to either share the road with cars or expecting them to share the sidewalks with pedestrians are unsafe solutions to this problem.  Cycling is an important way to reduce motor vehicle traffic on campus and in turn reducing air pollution. 

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 Project Goals

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1. Raise awareness on campus for the importance of considering alternative transportation ideas, especially in campus and urban settings.
2. Demonstrate the demand and need for a bicycling plan for future campus planning.
3. Work to influence campus planners to consider developing a bike lane on roads, especially on new North Eagleville Road Extension.
4. Raise awareness of competition problems between bicycles, cars, and pedestrians.

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Recent Project Workgroup Members:

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UConn Campus Bicycle Plan Recommendations Fall 2005

 25 Proposed New Bike Rack Locations

1. Between Hale/Ellsworth Residence Halls
2. (2) Mansfield Apartments -- in the front and the rear of the complex
3. McMahon -- main entrance
4. Putnam Dining Hall
5. Outside Northwest Dining Hall
6. Towers Dining Hall
7. (3) Towers Residence Halls 
8. Wilbur Cross
9. Jorgenson
10. New Pharm/Biol Building
11. Young Building Main entrance -- replace the existing rack
12. ATL Building 
13. Biophysics
14. MSB
15. Benton Museum
16. (2) West Residence Halls -- currently there are no racks in West
17. CLAS Building
18. CUE Building
19. Beach Hall -- on side of the building adjacent to the large field
20. Parking Services -- replace existing rack and relocate to main entrance

21. Gentry

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