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Campus bike
planning
getting back on track
As the cost of gasoline skyrocketed this fall, many students, faculty and staff members began utilizing bicycles to get around campus. The resulting increase in cycling traffic has raised safety concerns, and is part of the driving force behind the initiative to get the campus bike plan back on track.
Originally part of the NC State Master Plan, the campus bike plan was completed a year ago and scheduled for implementation over a five-year period. The projects were to be partially funded by Transportation’s revenue from parking fines.
However, a recent court ruling that revenues from fines must be given to the public school system left Transportation scrambling to find alternative solutions.
“We’re definitely moving forward with the bike plan,” said Adena Messinger, planner in Transportation. “We’ve just had to retool the plans a little bit.”
Part of the retooling has involved getting campuswide input into identifying strategies that will have the most impact on campus traffic. In October, Transportation held two meetings for the Centennial Campus community to offer suggestions.
“The biggest concern seems to be for folks trying to get to and from Centennial Campus,” says Messinger. “We’re working on safety issues related to that.”
In the meantime, Transportation has established a listserv and Web site where cyclists can go for more information. To subscribe to the listserv, go to http://lists.ncsu.edu/cgi-bin/lists, select “ALL” and then “ncsubug.”
Posted Nov. 18, 2005
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