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
The stories “The Ones Who Walk Away” by Ursula Le Guin and “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury, shows how a society is appeared to be perfect when in reality it is not a perfect society. Have humans made any effort in resulting utopia, but not just desiring for it? Usually the stories are predicted to the imagination of a Utopia, but their actions result into a dystopian society. Many stories are based on a utopia, yet one makes it end into a dystopia. For instance, humans think that Earth can become a paradise, but they know that in order for the earth to become a paradise they need to be evil to others. What they do not understand is that in order to bring happiness and make something perfect, one has to be good to everyone and should give others the equal right. The stories “The One Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula Le Guin and “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury expresses how the society starts off from utopia and creates
...have to drive from Heber City, to I-80 through Park City, down Parleys Canyon and along Northbound I-15.They estimate that would be one truck every four minutes, every day, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.(“Salt Lake Oil,”2013).
The 2700 block of Foothill Blvd is an east-west two-lane roadway with a marked left turn lane and a marked lane for vehicles to parallel park. The 2800 block of Foothill is a “T” intersection with 28th Ave in a southbound direction. On 26 Jun 16, it was a sunny and windy day. There were vehicles parked on the north and south of Foothill Blvd in
Parking on Campus is a Pain New students entering Concordia College are not permitted to have a car on campus. With each new freshman class entering every year, parking represents an issue. Concordia is as of now constrained in its parking on campus and since first year students are not permitted to have cars, the students are confronted with the problem of having no place to park or parking very a long way from their goal. There are parking issues everywhere throughout the campus, making backups in residence hall and other lots, bringing about students parking illegally to avoid from walking far distances, which can be very aggravating in the bitter cold. Parking nearer appears like the reasonable thing to do, however it is a hazard, which
When the bell rings for students to go home the quiet and serene field of asphalt in front of school becomes a sinkhole and everyone is fighting to get out. Most school parking lots are accessible, safe, and orderly; the Hinckley-Big Rock High School parking lot is an accident waiting to happen. With so many problems, a slight redesign of the schools main parking lot would seem practical.
One does not have to go far. I am pretty sure that students here at California State University Dominguez Hills experience this every day. One might think that by paying a whole semester parking pass, guarantees a quick parking space. The reality is that is not true it might take up to thirty minutes or more to find a parking space. That is why is good to plan ahead before time. The need for parking is not just here, is all over Los Angeles. I remember when I used to live in the apartment buildings in West Los Angeles, sometimes we were not able to park on the same street we lived on. So we would find parking three to four streets away sometimes even more and during the weekends it was the worst to find a parking
Did you know that thinking allows human to make sense or, interpret, represent or model the world they experience, and to make predictions about the world.Well in the two stories “Us and Them” and “The Pedestrian,” the character’s thoughts and actions reveal aspects of his personality. In “Us and Them” the author writes the story based on his own experience during his childhood. It talks about how everybody has a T.V besides that one family who is very behind. Next in “The Pedestrian” it talks about a guy named Mead and he is a person who is just like Mr. Tomkey from “Us and Then” who doesn’t believe in television and doesn’t watches it. In both stories, the character’s actions reveal and express its personality.
* Levinson, H. (2004). Highways, People, and Places: Past, Present, and Future. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 130 (4), 406 – 412.
Parking legally by the residence halls is almost impossible. Students who live at particular dorms find themselves faced with the problem of having to park on the other side of campus. Students who live in the valleys comment that they are surprised with the numerous tickets that are written every day and how it isn’t always clearly spelled out where they can park. They complain on how some parking spaces involve lengthy walks in the freezing cold weather, and how easily the lots fill up. Whenever I'm riding with someone and they have to park by my hall or any other, they usually park in the 30 min parking and leave their car there for hours, or in the faculty lots to avoid walking from the lot up the hill. These actio...
On the afternoon of January 25, a pedestrian was hit on I-465 Southbound. The situation is quite unique in that the man had stopped his vehicle on the shoulder of the road and had proceeded to strip as he walked down the roadway. By the time the man walked into traffic and was hit, he was naked. The man is believed to have acted under the influence of drugs and will charges with both public intoxication and indecent exposure. As a pedestrian, it is probably common sense to keep your clothes on, but there are other things you might be doing which could put you in danger as a pedestrian.
Octavio Paz’s “Identical Time” and Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” have, in common, a theme of aliveness. They each feature certain individuals as particularly alive in their cities: the old man is alive in the busy dawn of Paz’s Mexico City, and Mr. Mead is alive in the silent night of a future Los Angeles envisioned by Bradbury. The individuals’ aliveness manifests as stillness in “Identical Time” and motion in “The Pedestrian” against the urban backgrounds - signifying, in both, living a human life freely, in the present and nature. Furthermore, in portraying the urban backgrounds as, in contrast to the individuals, dull and lifeless, the two pieces speak together to how cities may diminish and hinder our aliveness and humanity.
Albert Einstein once said “I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” In the story The Pedestrian written by Ray Bradbury, Einstein’s prediction became a reality. For instance, this book portrays the negative influence technology has on society. The main character, Lenard Mead lives in a society that is consumed by technology and does not value individualism.
Parking by the dormitories is almost impossible. Students who live at particular dorms find themselves faced with the problem of having to park on the other side of campus. Those who live in Brown Hall, which is behind the Thompson center, have the most parking problems on campus. This is because the Thompson center is a very large building housing various departments on campus. Therefore it receives a lot of traffic all day. Visitors to the campus are taking over the parking lots around the Thompson center, which is forcing students to park other places on campus and some students chose to disregard the signs posted for reserved parking.
One solution for improving student transportation is offering a shuttle service. Although, UTSA already provides a shuttle service, it is limited to only two routes and can be unreliable. The transportation service at UTSA recommends waiting at the shuttle stop “30 to 45 minutes before your scheduled class time” (Business . . .). The thought of waiting in freezing temperatures trying to hide from the icy rain can be disheartening for some but it is a reality for students whose only way of transportation is through the shuttle. As a result of similar issues, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, “provides 40 buses on 10 routes complete with GPS tracking“(Horan 52). The purpose of GPS trackin...
Pedestrians are a common sight in any metro region, and that includes the East Valley area. Millions of tourists visit Arizona every year. In addition, many of the people who work and live here take advantage of the dry weather to walk where they need to go. The downside to this is that it sometimes leads to collisions between pedestrians and cars, many of which happen at a crosswalk. Personal injury attorneys represent numerous people who have suffered pedestrian accidents and crosswalk injuries. Unfortunately, pedestrian accidents are a common occurrence statewide – not just in the Valley region. Every year more than 1,500 collisions take place, and nearly all of them resulted in some form of injury. Those numbers hold relatively steady