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RETHINKING

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

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  1. RETHINKING UBC Campus & Community UBC’s Sustainable Transportation Story Carole Jolly, Director UBC Transportation Planning

  2. For most of its 100+ year history UBC was a commuter campus

  3. With LOTS of parking lots

  4. A lot has happened Since Then…

  5. 1980 Downtown UBC For most of its 100+ year history UBC was a commuter campus

  6. KEY LAND USE CHANGES

  7. From a commuter campus to Utown @ UBC

  8. BEFORE

  9. AFTER

  10. We still have commuters… But they travel differently!

  11. 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

  12. There will always be Challenges

  13. “I have sometimes thought of the modern university as a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

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