University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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Autos No Longer Are the Most Important 14

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The Illi Bus is a great service to many students. In bad weather, it can't be beat. Lost? Try standing here a while. The Illi Bus is a New Service for the films The Illi Bus is the newest service on the University of Illinois campus. For five cents a student or staff member can ride anywhere on the route from Men's Residence Halls near the Stadium on the west to Illini Grove or to Women's Residence Halls on the east. One can get on or leave close to any of one hundred buildings. Thirty stops have now been marked by signs. Buses run every seven minutes from 7:17 a.m. to 5:20 p.m Mondays through Fridays, except during vacations. Any point can be reached in not more than fourteen minutes. Service began on a trial basis November 14, 1960, and is still in its birth stages. It is to become permanent if demand supports the project. This could very well be so. In the first week the number of buses had to be in- creased from three to six. The number of passengers tripled by the end of the first week. The big test for the Illi Bus will come in the Spring, when walking ceases to be chore. We hope that sights as this will be uncommon. 13

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Transportation As Bikes Increase in Number With the opening of the fall semes- ter, many new sights were to be seen on campus. One of the major innova- tions was the bicycle lanes on Wright and Gregory Streets. These paths were erected for the ever-increasing bicycle population on campus. Now when crossing streets, in addition to facing many automobile dangers, stu- dents must beware of the treacherous bicycle lanes. These bicycle lanes were inaugu- rated by the University Civil Engi- neering in order to segregate bicycles from the many cars on campus. During the fall, a survey was taken on the number of bicycles which used these lanes ; it was found that within a twenty-four hour period forty-three hundred bicycles passed Greg Hall. Within a fifteen minute break be- tween classes, three hundred bikes were ridden by this area. On Gregory Drive, forty-two hundred cyclists pedaled past the Armory within twen- ty-four hours. At the other end of the campus twenty-nine hundred bi- cycling enthusiasts wended their way past Altgeld Hall. Bicycles, bicycles, and more bicycles come to campus. Collisions as the one above were once few and far between, but over the past year, they have become everyday sights. However, as shown at the left, bicycles are not always a menace. 15