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preliminary planning principles

next steps

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key issues
improve campus connections

Circulation on campus is confusing and disconnected:

• Boundaries between automobile and pedestrian circulation are unclear –compromises pedestrian safety
  
• Intrusion of roads, service access, and parking negatively affects campus quality
  
• Massachusetts Ave and Commonwealth Ave are areas of conflict between pedestrians and automobiles and are oversized for daily traffic
  
• North-south pedestrian spine between Whitmore and Machmer Halls serves the campus well and could be extended north toward Sciences/Engineering
  
• Transportation demand management has decreased single-occupant auto trips to campus by 33% in the past ten years; significant increases in bus ridership, carpooling, biking, walking are expected to continue

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CONNECTIONS

safety and cohesion
Improve transit

Extend bike paths

Improve walkways

Reduce auto use