Colorado State University

The north section of the University Square parking lot will close on August 3, when site preparation begins for the new South College Parking Garage. The closure will impact 275 parking spaces in lot #575. On August 3, the underpass tunnel at College Avenue near the University Center for the Arts also will be closed while the city improves bike access on Remington Street. CSU crews also will move the sidewalk access adjacent to the University Square lot to the tunnel to accommodate changes created by the construction project. The tunnel will be closed from August 5-13 while these improvements are completed. The South College Parking Garage is a four-story building that will add 650 parking spaces to campus inventory. It is slated to be finished in about a year.  

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Updated August 14 Traffic on Pitkin will continued to be reduced to one late between Center Avenue and Mason Street until August 21. On Friday, August 21, the section between East Drive and Mason will open to traffic both ways. On Thursday, August 27, the remaining section between Center Avenue and East Drive will also open. Updated 2 p.m. Aug. 7 On Monday, Aug. 10, traffic flaggers will on Pitkin Street be between East Drive and Mason Street while traffic is reduced to one lane for utility work. Work is expected to be completed in this area by Tuesday, Aug. 25 and also will impact pedestrian and bike routes. Additional periodic traffic disruptions are anticipated between the Newton statute on Center Avenue and East Drive into the fall. Flaggers will be in this area through mid-November for periodic lane closures. Two-way traffic will be allowed with the flaggers during daytime hours, and both lanes are anticipated to be open during evenings and weekends. Updated 3 p.m. Aug. 3 Pitkin traffic will be reduced to one lane from Aug 6-15 directly north of the stadium construction site, and south of Newsom and Aylesworth Halls. Flaggers will be on site to manage traffic. Both lanes will be open during evening and weekend hours. (original post July 24) Pitkin between Meridian to Visual Arts Building Traffic flaggers will be on Pitkin Street from Meridian Avenue east to the Visual Arts Building starting Monday, July 27 through Friday, August 7 to accommodate utility work. Both east and west traffic will be allowed to pass, but expect delays and detours. Eastbound traffic will move through the work zone, and westbound traffic will be rerouted through the Braiden parking lot to South Drive. Pitkin between Center Ave to East Drive On the east side of campus,Pitkin Street will be impacted by utility work between the Newton statue on Center Avenue to East Drive, starting July 29. Initial disruptions will be to the sidewalk on the north side of Pitkin Street, but starting in late August also will impact traffic lanes. At that time, traffic flaggers will assist with traffic flow through mid-November.  

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The Office of the Vice President for Research has implemented a new Core Research Facilities program.

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Over the last several months, the Office of Risk Management and Insurance has worked closely with Travel Services in making sure that the information needed by Risk Management and Insurance for international travel is collected through the Kuali TEM process. This means that with the recent Kuali TEM campus wide implementation, Risk Management and Insurance has updated its systems so that users and travelers no longer need to enter the same information twice. This will lead to:

• Greater efficiency
• Less duplicative efforts in international travel approval work flow

All student status travelers will still need to obtain approval from the Office of International Programs – Education Abroad prior to departure. What's new?

• As of July 20, all new international travel saved and submitted in Kuali TEM will no longer require separate registration in the Risk Management and Insurance international travel website.
• Instead, travel authorizations  saved and submitted in Kuali TEM to international destinations will receive an Risk Management and Insurance approval via email within 24 hours.
• This approval email must be attached to the travel authorization record by either the traveler or the travel authorization initiator as proof of Risk Management approval.
• Users will no longer need to enter information into Risk Management international registration; all information will be captured in Kuali TEM’s travel authorization document.

TRAVEL ADVISORY WAIVERS:

• For trips subject to a U.S. State Department travel advisory, travel authorization needs to be saved and submitted. Within 24 hours, Risk Management and Insurance will notify the traveler and travel authorization initiator that the destination requires a travel advisory waiver.
• This waiver is now available electronically via a new Risk Management international travel TEM portal, where you can complete and sign waivers and view previously approved trips.
• A CSU EID is required to login to the new Risk Management and Insurance international travel TEM portal to access the travel advisory waiver. Once the travel advisory waiver is electronically completed by the traveler, the system will automatically generate an approval email. This approval email should be attached to the travel authorization document to show proof that travel to the destination subject to a travel advisory has been approved.

Please do not ad hoc Risk Management and Insurance through Kuali for approval of travel authorizations. Ad hoc requests will be denied, and may result in a delay of approval. It may also result in the department or traveler not being eligible for travel expense reimbursement. From July 20- August 1, the old Risk Management international travel registration database will be available for read only access to allow travelers and admins to access prior travel registration. No new trip registrations will be allowed on the old system. For technical questions contact: Rick Wells at (970) 491-1818, or Richard.Wells@colostate.edu Andy Borchert at (970) 491-2705 at Andy.Borchert@colostate.edu For other questions about this process contact: Sally Alexander at (970) 491-7724, or sally.alexander@colostate.edu Susan Cavender at (970) 491-1432, or susan.cavender@colostate.edu Frequently asked questions What if I have already completed registration with Risk Management and Insurance using its old system? For all travel authorizations initiated in Kuali TEM after July 20, there is no need to register with Risk Management and Insurance, or to use that approval system. However, if your pre-trip travel document was initiated using the old system, download Risk Management approval using the old system and attach to your pre-trip travel documentation. All travel approvals that begin with the paper system, need to end with the paper system. NOTE*: For travel authorizations submitted from July 1 through July 20, with a completed Risk Management and Insurance registration, download the approval from the old registration system to attach to your travel authorization. Please remember that Risk Management’s old registration system will only be accessible for this purpose from July 20th through August 1st. No new travel registrations will be accepted beginning July 20. It is the travelers and the travel arranger’s responsibility to make sure that copies of Risk Management and Insurance authorizations from the old system are retained. What if the traveler has completed a paper pre-trip travel authorization and completed registration with Risk Management using the old system? All travel approvals begun with the paper process must be completed using the paper process. Please remember that Risk Management's old registration system will only be accessible for this purpose from July 20 through August 1. No new travel registrations will be accepted beginning July 20. It is the travelers and the travel arranger’s responsibility to make sure that copies of Risk Management authorizations from the old system are retained. Do I still have access to trips that I have registered using the old registration system? You will have access to trips registered using the old Risk Management registration ONLY from July 20-August 1. I was taught that the traveler needs Risk Management approval BEFORE the airfares and hotel accommodations were booked. How can I ensure that now that I have to submit a travel authorization before Risk Management approves? Risk Management approval is based on the initiation and save and submission of a travel authorization in Kuali TEM. The approval is an automated process, and for 90 percent of international destinations the approval occurs within 24 hours. It is the responsibility of the traveler or travel initiator to attach the Risk Management approval email to the travel authorization. Failure to do so is non-compliant with university policy and may result in no reimbursement of the traveler’s expenses. For destinations subject to a U.S. State Department travel advisory, Risk Management still requires travelers to complete and sign the travel advisory waiver. The process has now been streamlined so that upon completion of the travel advisory waiver, Risk Management approval is automatically generated. What happens if the Risk Management approval email is not attached to the travel authorization document? This process has not changed. As with the old system, the travel desk will reject the reimbursement request when expenses are submitted. What if a traveler is a student? All travelers with student status are required to obtain approval from the Office of International Programs – Education Abroad, prior to travel. Why does it take 24 hours for Risk Management’s system to approve the international travel? Thesystem is programmed to view information out of CSU’s data warehouse. These views are only populated nightly out of Kuali TEM.

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Updated 12:15 p.m. July 24 Traffic flaggers will be on Pitkin Street from Meridian Avenue east to the Visual Arts Building starting Monday, July 27 through August 7 to accommodate utility work. Both east and west traffic will be allowed to pass, but expect delays. Original post (July 17) On Monday, July 20, sidewalks on Lake and Pitkin streets around the construction fence for the stadium site will be shifted into the construction fence zone. On Lake Street, the construction fence will come out onto the street, and a protected walkway on Lake Street will be created to allow safe movement for pedestrians and bike riders. On Lake Street adjacent to the Aggie Village site, the construction fence also will be expanded over the sidewalks. Two lanes for campus traffic will remain. These shifts will remove street parking along this section of Lake Street on the north side of the street between Whitcomb Street and the arboretum, and on both sides of Lake between Whitcomb and Center. Parking along this section of Lake Street has not required a university permit. Utility work also will be performed on Pitkin Street near the Visual Arts building.  

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Updated: Westfall parking lots #110 and #115 - closed July 23-August 14 Original post (July 17) Several parking lots will be temporary closed before the end of July for maintenance. Ingersoll lot #215 – closed July 20-22 Top floor of Lake Street Garage – closed July 20-August 3 Christiansen Field lot #440 – closed July 22-24 Spruce and Alder lots #330 and #332 –closed July 23-25 Westfall lot also will close before the end of July for reconfiguration. More information will be available on SOURCE soon.

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Updated August 14 Both lanes of Lake Street will be open to east/west traffic on Thursday, August 20   Original post (July 17) Lake Street traffic will be delayed for utility work from Wednesday, July 22-Friday, July 31. Traffic will be reduced to one lane between East Drive east to the railroad tracks, with flaggers on site from 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. Expect delays, and consider using alternate routes. Two lanes offering traffic flow east and west will be open during the evenings, from 7 p.m.-7 a.m.

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South Drive reopened today, July 31, as a one-way to the west. This rerouting will provide an additional avenue to Shields Street from the west side of campus. Original post (July 17) South Drive will be reversed from a one-way east to a one-way west to ease traffic congestion on campus. The road and parking along the road will be closed from July 23-30 to reconfigure the street and 236 parking spaces. Access to Hartshorn and other buildings along the drive will be maintained via detour routes posted with signs. South Drive will reopen as a one-way west on July 31.  

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Faculty and staff 50 years and older can get Back on the Bike, thanks to a Kaiser Permanente grant. The grant, awarded to Parking and Transportation Services, supports a program to help faculty and staff become more comfortable riding a bike to work. The program, Back on the Bike, is now seeking participants for sessions starting the fall semester. The program, geared toward engaging more people in active transportation and physical activity, helps CSU employees who want to bike to work assess their health, tune up their bike, get safety gear, and learn tricks to travel in traffic and overcome other safety or comfort obstacles through personalized travel training. To qualify, faculty and staff must be at least 50 years old, live within a Fort Collins zip code, and want to commute by bicycle. Training helps with health, safety concerns Back on the Bike will offer faculty and staff travel training programs including:

• Confidential health assessments administered by the Recreation Center
• Free bicycle tune up
• Free bike safety gear including a bike lock, helmet, light, and carry bag
• Hands on travel training and bicycle skills development
• Eight monthly training and discussion group sessions with lunch provided
• Online participation tracking system
• The opportunity to recruit other eligible employees

“CSU is in one of the nation’s friendliest biking cities, but it can be intimidating to commute to work when the ride includes traveling in traffic, navigating trails and planning your day around the commute,” said Aaron Fodge, alternative transportation manager for CSU, housed in Parking and Transportation Services. “Many faculty and staff members may be tempted to try commuting to work during the summer, but don’t want to get stuck on campus during an afternoon rainstorm, or just simply haven’t hopped on a bike for a while. This grant is designed to provide them with everything they need to be able to get on their bikes this summer and enjoy all that campus and Fort Collins have to offer for those on two wheels,” Fodge said. Because of this program, many employees are overcoming these obstacles and biking to work. CSU employees offer testimonials for the program Sign up by August 4 to participate Participation in the program requires that employees attempt to commute by bicycle to work three times per week from September-November and March-May, and one time a week during December-February. To participate, employees should sign up by August 4. To participate in the Get Back on the Bike program, contact Amanda Fitzpatrick at (970) 491-7600 or Amanda.Fitzpatrick@colostate.edu.

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Center Avenue will experience traffic disruptions and lane re-routing from July 13 through Aug. 13 due to a gas line project for Aggie Village North. The project will cross north of Prospect Street on Center Avenue.

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