New! Campus-biking-archives!

Thanks to the generosity of one of our founders, Tim Ledlie (founding manager of Harvard Quad Bikes, one of the early university-owned bike shops in the USA), he has created a new Google group, the Campus-Biking-Archive: https://groups.google.com/g/campus-biking-archive

Here is a description of the group:

This is an archive of conversations over the campus-biking@lists.wisc.edu which existed from 2008 to 2020. This archive contains a selection of the ~1300 threads from that list that had 4 or more responses.

This new Google group is meant as an archive that can be searched by campus bike programmers who want to see what was previously discussed on a topic.  No one can post new messages to the group, and there should never be anything to update with it.

The group content is only available to members of campus-bike-programmers-network@googlegroups.com who’ve been granted access to it and not to members of campus-biking@googlegroups.com (that is, no vendors are going to be given access). Members of the campus-bike-programmers-network@googlegroups.com should now be able to go to https://groups.google.com/g/campus-biking-archive and search the archives.

Some updates to our website (which Tim also kindly updated and hosts since its inception) https://www.universitybikeprograms.org:

– removed the menu link to “FAQ / Best Practices”, since the campus-biking-archive google group is replacing that

– updated the Resources page – update the Email List / Contact page to add information about the new campus-biking-archive and remove information about the old wisc list archive

Onward forward!

PBIC webinar “Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety on University Campuses”

Screenshot from webinar
Screenshot from webinar

Six of our MSU Bike Advisory Committee sat in on an excellent webinar titled “Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety on University Campuses”on October 16, 2015.  It was hosted by the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (which is housed within the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center) an excellent resource for all kinds of materials to help us make our campuses more bike friendly.

You can see the archived version here (both the Powerpoint and the audio recording):  http://www.pedbikeinfo.org/training/webinars_PBIC_LC_101615.cfm

Excellent examples from 3 universities (U of WI-Milwaukee,  UC- Berkeley, NCSU) that are doing some great work to make their campuses safer for everyone moving around.