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In article <D.Nash-1211941238150001@slip-18-14.ots.utexas.edu>,
Donald L. Nash <D.Nash@utexas.edu> wrote:
>In article <3a0ceg$7fs@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>, ben@utig.ig.utexas.edu wrote:
>>I would have no objection 
>>to closing the campus to motorized vehicles from 7-6.
>
>This is easy for you to say.  Unless your signature is mistaken or somehow
>misleading, you work for the Institute for Geophysics.  That's not even on
>campus.  It probably wouldn't inconvenience you at all if campus was
>closed from 7-6.  It sure would inconvenience all of us who work down here
>and park down here.  UT doesn't have enough parking space as it is.  Your
>suggestion would eliminate even more of it.

I've spent my share of time on campus (and then some!) and I wouldn't
dream of trying to drive or park there during the day.  The campus
is just too congested for cars.  UT needs to do more to encourage people
to find other ways of getting to and from campus.  I'd like to see
more park'n'ride encouraged along UT Shuttle routes.  Plenty of students
do this now and faculty and staff could, too.

>And besides, I wasn't talking about driving on the campus itself; I meant
>driving in the public streets surrounding the campus.  There are a lot of
>students who live in the areas immediatelly surrounding campus, and many
>of them bike to class.  Most of the streets around campus are narrow and
>the speed limit is generally 30 - 35, quite a bit faster than a bike. 
>Bikers do hold up traffic on these streets.  I speak from experience, I've
>been caught behind them too many times before.

Maybe the city needs to put in some major, limited access roads to the
center of campus.  I35 is already pretty darn close on the east.  If you're
coming from the west, I guess you just need to plan ahead.  Politically,
I would give preference who choose to live close to where they work
and bike or walk versus those preferring to commute great distances
by car with all the impositions this makes on our society.

Ben
--
Benjamin Sloan	     "...the Oklahoma City police are a bunch of crazed
ben@utig.ig.utexas.edu  no-neck gestapo who don't know nothing about nothing 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and hate anyone who does."    -author Bruce Sterling