Input sought for strategy to reduce campus traffic
Do more students mean more traffic to
UVic? Not if the university can develop a new strategy to decrease the number
of cars coming to campus and increase the use of alternative modes of transportation.
After meeting with members of the university community and the surrounding
neighbourhoods, UVic’s Transportation Demand Management Steering Committee
is seeking further community input on its draft report at an upcoming Open
House on Sept. 17 from 3 to 8 p.m. in the Michèle Pujol Room of the
Student Union Building.
The Committee consists of representatives from the Capital Regional District, Oak Bay, Saanich, BC Transit and UVic staff. Consultations over the past several months focused on identifying the potential for change in travel behaviour and the existing barriers to using alternative modes of transportation.
Reducing dependence on single-occupant vehicles and encouraging increased use of public transit, cycling and walking is one of the goals in UVic’s Campus Plan 2003. It identified completing and implementing a plan based on a transportation demand management study as one of the Campus Plan actions.
An advisory group to the TDM committee was drawn from UVic employee groups, student associations, neighbourhood associations, bicycle user groups and other on-and off-campus organizations.
Draft copies of the TDM report are available online at web.uvic.ca/fmgt or by calling (250) 721-7591.
The Committee consists of representatives from the Capital Regional District, Oak Bay, Saanich, BC Transit and UVic staff. Consultations over the past several months focused on identifying the potential for change in travel behaviour and the existing barriers to using alternative modes of transportation.
Reducing dependence on single-occupant vehicles and encouraging increased use of public transit, cycling and walking is one of the goals in UVic’s Campus Plan 2003. It identified completing and implementing a plan based on a transportation demand management study as one of the Campus Plan actions.
An advisory group to the TDM committee was drawn from UVic employee groups, student associations, neighbourhood associations, bicycle user groups and other on-and off-campus organizations.
Draft copies of the TDM report are available online at web.uvic.ca/fmgt or by calling (250) 721-7591.
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Media contacts
Patty Pitts (UVic Communications) at (250) 721-7656 or ppitts@uvic.ca