At 12:01 PM 11/28/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suppose next they're going to tell us the UW (students, faculty, staff,
visitors) doesn't plan to use the proposed new parking lot on State Street
that the City has decided to build.
Also, does the UW's promise not to increase parking for the 18 years apply
also to the parking for all those heavily polluting motorized scooters on
campus? They should ban the use of those things entirely from the UW
campus, which I've already suggested to him.
Mike Neuman
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Mike, you know that the UW doesn't control what the city does. They can, at
best, influence only influence things like the proposed State Street Ramp.
As for the mopeds, yes, actually, the UW will be reducing the number of
parking spaces for mopeds. Because they are beginning to require that
mopeds be registered with the UW (like motorcycles) and parked in
designated moped spaces, they will effectively be reducing the number of
moped spaces on campus, since up until now mopeds could legally park at any
bike rack (and practically speaking, parked wherever they wanted).
Registration requirements will allow the UW to ticket illegally parked mopeds.
Mike, really, the UW is headed in the right direction. If you don't trust
me (as a paid bicycling advocate, a member of the PBMVC, and a member of
the Joint SE Campus Area committee) to keep on top of this, then I suggest
you go to the UW bicycle & pedestrian subcommittee meetings of the UW
transportation committee - email Matthew Burczyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
about times and places. But I'd suggest your considerable efforts to
advocate transportation alternatives might be more effective if they were
directed differently. As an example, your justifiable criticism of the
city's proposed State Street Ramp should be directed towards the city, not
the UW.
I've criticized the ramp, as well as the city's refusal to implement other
solutions to the *perceived* dearth of parking downtown, such as a
networked system of electronic signs that tell motorists approaching ramps
1)how many spaces are available in that ramp, 2)how many spaces are
available in the next closest ramp(s), and how to get to those other ramps.
I've also suggested to the city that the city's *minimum* parking
requirements all be changed to *maximum* parking requirements, saving
developers money and discouraging the provision of excessive amounts of
parking and the car oriented landscapes that result.
You might make these suggestions, and/or your own, to the city of Madison
(and other nearby municipalities), rather than flogging the UW for doing
the right things.
Chuck Strawser
Project Coordinator
Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin
106 E. Doty Street, Suite 400
Madison, WI 53703
voice: 608-251-4456
fax: 608-251-4594
www.bfw.org
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