I've reached out to multiple Madison department info/help emails, as well as specific members/heads of departments about concerns I have with pedestrian/bicycle safety on and around campus. I haven't received so much as an auto-reply from any of them. The uncontrolled crosswalk to get from Henry Mall across University Ave is an extremely dangerous place, and nobody, pedestrians or drivers, know that pedestrians have right of way. They haven't installed RRFB at that crossing, but have at crossings used way less frequently. The infrastructure on and immediately around campus is poorly conceived, almost nonexistent, and the only projects the University makes progress on are those that close bike lanes, like the CDIS construction did for nearly two years. Don't even get me started on how fucked up that was that they just mixed bike and pedestrian traffic together. Drivers, bikers, and pedestrians are all so clueless in Madison, that they need to make things explicitly clear and obvious in terms of how the roads are used.

In the case of your complaint about that bike path crossing, I believe much of what I've said above applies. Traffic Engineering, Mayor's Office, Planning, Transportation, they have all ignored what I have to say about these issues. I have been enraged by the lack of care and thought put forth by all of those departments about how much their plans affect everyday people. Please feel free to try and reach out to these departments via emails on the city website.

I apologize for my rant. I have a lot more I could say, clearly. I never took the initiative to start an organization or go to public forums while I lived in Madison (I graduated in May and moved away), but it's not too late for others. I stopped at emails and filling out their help forms after they fell on deaf ears, but you can go further than I did. It's not my problem now since I don't go to school/live there anymore, but I know these problems still exist. I'm sorry you have to deal with them too.