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www.DailyIllini.com * The Small Starts Grant Proposal projects are also prioritized as high-priority, but are not included on the map as there are no cost estimates for them yet. As a temporary fix, bike paths will be repainted and stop signs will be added to improve bicycle traffic.
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Estimated cost: $256,925.84 JOHN STREET
First Street (fall 2014) Estimated cost: $113,629.75 Armory Avenue (TBA) Phase 1: Adds off-road bike path from Lincoln Avenue to Goodwin Avenue Dedicates bike path from Nevada Street to Armory Avenue Path Dedicates bike path from Nevada Street to Gregory Drive Dedicates bike path from Armory Avenue Path to Gregory Drive Phase 2: Adds off-road bike path from Goodwin Avenue to Mathews Avenue Phase 3: Adds off-road bike path from Mathews Avenue to Wright Street Adds shared use path by Undergraduate Library from Lorado Taft Path to Armory Path
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Phase 1: Adds bike lanes and new sidewalks on First Street from Gregory Drive to Kirby Avenue
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Fourth Street (summer 2014) Phase 1: Adds bike lanes on Fourth Street from Armory Avenue to Kirby Avenue Phase 2: Removes side path on Fourth Street from Gregory Drive to Peabody Drive Phase 3: Adds bike lanes on Fourth Street from Kirby Avenue to St. Mary’s Road
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Estimated cost: $397,799.74 Sixth Street (summer 2013) Phase 1: Adds bike lanes on Sixth Street from Armory Avenue to Gregory Drive Phase 2: Removes off-road bike path from Armory Avenue to Gregory Drive Phase 3: Adds bike lanes from Gregory Drive to Pennsylvania Avenue and removes off-road bike path from Gregory Drive to Lorado Taft Drive
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Editor’s note: This is the final part of a five-part series. In this personal essay, Daily Illini columnist Melanie Stone combines her story with that of experts and multiple women across the country.
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Total estimated cost: $892,457.73
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Source: 2013 Campus Bike Plan
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Bicycle path updates planned around campus The University’s 2013 Campus Bicycle Plan was published earlier this month with the primary goal of improving campus bikeway networks. Projects have been categorized as high, medium or low priority. Some high-priority projects will begin as early as summer 2013.*
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Bike path plan pedals forward “People are glad to see Plan seeks to move community toward increased safety, sustainability this report that explains BY CLAIRE EVERETT cyclists on campus, funding future infrastructure and renewing the University’s standing how it all fits together University Facilities and Services is accepting feed- improvements as a national leader in bicycle friendliness. on its currently unfunded $4 million “2013 CamIts main focus is to improve the network of Univerand how we’re going back pus Bike Plan” on the Illinois Climate Action Plan sity bike paths. website. The first paths were created in the 1950s; because to move forward.” The plan is a compilation of projects to improve bicycle riding has increased, improvements on infraSTAFF WRITER
MORGAN JOHNSTON, sustainability coordinator
bicycle infrastructure, education and enforcement on campus and will be finalized this summer. “The University has not had a bike plan for several decades,” said Rebecca Bird, Urbana planning official. “The University owns some streets, and ChampaignUrbana owns others. The University is right in the middle, and that connection is missing.” The plan’s goals include increasing safety and sustainability, improving mobility and accessibility for
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structure, education and enforcement are called for in this plan. “We have a lot that needs to be done,” said Morgan Johnston, sustainability coordinator. “People are glad to see this report that explains how it all fits together and how we’re going to move forward. Johnston said funding would be requested from
hen I started writing this series, it had been almost eight weeks since I left the University. So much had happened by that point: I started seeing a psychologist and a counselor, applied to other colleges, enrolled in online classes, visited friends at their respective campuses, spent time with them when they came back to Hinsdale, Ill., dropped the sorority, started a new devotional plan, kept up with yoga, decided to return to the University for the spring semester and live with other Christ followers in Stratford House, and devoted myself to this very story. Today, I am finally at a healthy weight for my body. I don’t obsess over calories anymore, and I now know how to properly indulge in a slice of pie or a cupcake. I have slip-ups sometimes. Food can still tempt me, and there are moments when I believe lies and lose the battle. My binges, though, are different these days. They are very rare, they are small, and each time it happens, I learn new truths about life and about myself and about God. Instead of crying and wallowing in self-pity, I recover by spending time in the pages of my Bible. Instead of shutting down, I openly share my struggle with others. Instead of punishing myself, I choose forgiveness. This, then, is what healing looks like. Physically, I still wish my stomach was a little flatter or my arms were more toned. But I’m learning how to look at my body with love. God didn’t intend for me to be bony and small. I have curves, a courtesy gift from Him, and these days, I’ve been trying to embrace them. The most important change is my heart. For the first time in my life, I feel peace. My time away from the University allowed me to rest my soul and renew my mind, and fill with hope once more. It didn’t happen overnight. I had to recognize my weakness — my desire to control life and perfect myself and find acceptance — and lay it down before God. I didn’t heal myself. He did. Over Christmas break and near the end of my semester at home, my best friends and I got to talking about happiness. “You know,” I said, “I don’t think I’ve ever been so content before. I just have this crazy sense of calm, of Christ in me. It’s amazing.”
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New student trustee discusses refundable fees, Chief Illiniwek Cunningham plans to create new ad-hoc RSO committees, focus groups BY TYLER DAVIS STAFF WRITER
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The Daily Illini sat down with new student trustee Mike Cunningham at the Illini Union and had a conversation about his views and goals for his term. Cunningham, junior in LAS, is originally from River Grove, Ill. His term starts July 1, but he said he has already been setting up meetings with different student leaders and administrators.
The Daily Illini: How would you characterize yourself? Mike Cunningham: Energetic. Definitely pro-
active — through my experiences, I would call myself a leader. Outgoing. I love to joke around a lot. I’m not too serious all the time, but when I need to be, I can be. I like to have a good time; I like to work hard, play hard, sit down, have a good time, but at the same time get the work done.
DI: What’s your past history with politics? MC: Sophomore year, I sat on the Illinois StuSee CUNNINGHAM, Page 3A
Condemned Urbana apartments spur talk of new relocation ordinance BY CORINNE RUFF STAFF WRITER
When Esther Patt stepped into an apartment at 2018 S. Fletcher St., her feet first felt the warp in the floor. The tenant of the apartment walked Patt through some of the violations that had yet to be fixed by the landlord. She saw cockroaches crawling around in drawers, on countertops and managing their way into the refrigerator through a crack in the seal. “I am so frustrated,” said Patt, director of the Champaign-Urbana Tenant Union. “City government just lets landlords get away with it.” The residents of this complex are not strangers to poor apartment maintenance. Two weeks ago, 18 occupants were relocated from their former residences at 1302, 1304 and 1401 E. Silver St. City officials condemned the complexes on Feb. 28 due to structural safety issues with the outdoor walkways between apartments. Now just a few blocks south of the old apartments,
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The apartment building at 1401 East Silver St. in Urbana has been condemned due to weaknesses in the building’s exterior walkways and stairways. Two other apartments, located at 1302 and 1304 East Silver St., have had their occupants evacuated until repairs can be made.
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