Quote Originally Posted by WindingRoad View Post
Shampoo-Banana! --- locals joke about the name Champaign-Urbana!
Nice! I'll remember that. I'm a Leatherneck from WIU in Macomb - any good jokes about U of I or their home is good for me!

It was very refreshing to see a community trying to be bike friendly. My community has put up a few bike lanes, but frankly, it doesn't cut it at all. It is the perfect town for biking - some hills, but everything is within easy bike reach - but you simply see very few people doing it. I was really amazed by the numbers of cyclists I saw the last few days in C-U. It was really interesting.

As an example of our "bike progress," a few years ago they designated two bike lanes....both on one-way roads. When the newspaper did the feature story on them, the picture they took was a bicyclist going THE WRONG WAY ON THE ONE-WAY. Ugh.