Pedestrian Condition

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1. Signage
Visitors as well as students, faculty, and staff find wayfinding to be really confusing. Motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians unfamiliar with the campus typically find it difficult to navigate to and within the campus. Specially during special events this confusion can cause a great deal of traffic and safety problems. Persons with disabilities face the additional challenge of identifying an accessible path of travel. Some major walkways lead to stairs or other barriers and no signage for accessible paths is provided in addition to providing the locations of campus destinations, other useful information may be displayed on wayfinding materials.
2. Pedestrian Conditions
The existing network of pedestrian facilities encourages
Most visitors typically drive to and park at the University. police direction is used at the intersection of Roanoke River Road with the Lot K and L entrances to manage pedestrian crossing. There are a total of 12,192 parking spots available on the Fairfax Campus. General parking is permitted in Lots A, C, and L, which are located near the Patriot Center on the south side of campus, as well as in Lots J and K, which are located in the southwest sector of campus. Lots J and K are considered less desirable than the other three lots and fill up later than the others. General parking is also available at the Rappahannock River Parking Deck. A major strength of the parking system is the large concentration of parking between the perimeter of campus and the loop formed by Patriot Circle. This layout facilitates vehicle circulation around campus and helps maintain the pedestrian-oriented core within campus. Several large parking facilities contribute to the existing parking system. The parking system is flexible to respond to various event needs. The current overall parking capacity is sufficient, and excess capacity is often available in West Campus and at fringe areas of campus. Short-term parking is also readily available for visitors.
The existing parking system, however, has several weaknesses. Regional access is limited primarily to Route 123 and Braddock Road. There are large,
This means that vehicles must frequently wait through more than one traffic signal cycle at these locations. During the AM, peak hour, poor operations and long queues of vehicles are observed at Route 123 and Braddock Road. Less severe congestion is experienced at the northbound approaches of Roanoke River Road, Nottoway River Lane, and Roberts Road along Braddock Road. This traffic is not related to University traffic, as it primarily exits the University Mall and the residential neighborhoods accessed by Sideburn Road, respectively. During the PM, peak hour, significant wait times and long queues of traffic are experienced at all intersections along Braddock Road. These delays impact traffic exiting the University, as noted above, and also other side streets along Braddock Road. The entrances with the heaviest traffic volumes are University Drive via Route 123, where approximately 35 percent of University-related traffic entered and exited and at Roanoke River Road, where approximately 26 percent of traffic entered and exited. Approximately 19 percent used the entrance at Nottoway River Lane, less than that using Roanoke River Road, and another 15 percent used Shenandoah River Lane via Roberts Road. The remaining 3 percent used the right-in/right-out access point along Mason Pond Drive at Route 123. The

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