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RETHINKING. UBC Campus & Community UBC’s Sustainable Transportation Story. Carole Jolly, Director UBC Transportation Planning. For most of its 100+ year history. UBC was a commuter campus. With LOTS of parking lots. A lot has happened Since Then…. 1980. Downtown. UBC.
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RETHINKING UBC Campus & Community UBC’s Sustainable Transportation Story Carole Jolly, Director UBC Transportation Planning
For most of its 100+ year history UBC was a commuter campus
A lot has happened Since Then…
1980 Downtown UBC For most of its 100+ year history UBC was a commuter campus
From a commuter campus to Utown @ UBC
We still have commuters… But they travel differently!
Key Transportation Facts • Decrease in SOV traffic since 1997: 2% • Increase in transit ridership since 1997: 232% • Decrease in auto traffic since 1997: 15% • Trips per day in 2009: 130,000 • Transit trips per day in 2009: 64,000 • Second largest transit destination in region: UBC
There will always be Challenges
“I have sometimes thought of the modern university as a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”