Bicycle and Pedestrian Subcommittee

The bike/ped committee met last week (March 3, 2010) to discuss the details of building a Bike Station on campus. A bike station has the potential to serve many functions, including but not limited to the following: indoor secure bike parking both short and long term, lockers, maintenance, showers, and rentals.

Importantly, the bike station is more than just a building. It is intended to be a multimodal transportation hub: a place where visitors and residents alike could find, in one central location, all the information they need to navigate to and through campus and central Madison, whether they walk, bicycle, take transit (perhaps including a future light rail commuter service with a planned stop at the Union South), use a car sharing service such as Community Car, or plan on driving and parking their own car.

Currently we are in the process of securing funding for this project. The bike/ped committee has agreed to meet more regularly in order to facilitate this projects completion.

- Kyle VandenLangenberg, Bicycle and Pedestrian Subcommittee