University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 2, 1990
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Boulevard plan will be considered
By Parn Solliner
Kansan staff writer
Tom Mulnazzi, chairman of the committee, said Friday that at the committee's next meeting it would vote on a preliminary recommendation for a stage-by-stage plan that would eventually close the boulevard. The committee also will begin drafting immediate solutions for improving traffic flow along the boulevard.
The Campus Transportation Committee is one step closer to making a recommendation about the fate of Jayhawk Boulevard.
Vehicular and pedestrian traffic statistics were presented at the meet.
Lt. John Mullens of the KU police said the campus population was about 31,000, including students, faculty and staff.
About 10,600 on-campus parking spaces exist, including the Parking Facility, said Donna Hutine, assistant director of parking.
Charles Bryan, coordinator of KU on Wheels, said buses served 15,000 riders daily, or almost 50 percent of the campus population. About 7,600 people buy bus passes in the fall and 7,000 in the spring.
Mulinazzi cited data from traffic
and pedestrian counts that two graduate engineering students completed last week.
An average of about 225 cars each hour travel the boulevard from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m, past Marvin Hall, according to the study.
In addition to vehicular traffic, pedestrians continually are crossing the boulevard. On March 21 between 12:15 p.m. and 12:30 p.m., 815 people crossed the boulevard from Hoch Auditorium to Snow Hall. That same day, 606 people crossed Sunflower Road between Stauffer-Flint Hall and Watson Library from 10:15 a.m. to 10:29 a.m.
Mullens said the decision should be a component of a larger plan that included periodic improvements toward that goal.
Mullens said, "We keep looking at the boulevard as if tomorrow we're going to close the boulevard, and where do we go from there?"
"There's never been a concentrated effort to improve it year after year." he said.
Greg Wade, landscape architect for Facilities Planning, suggested that the committee view the situation as planners.
He said the committee could recommend an ultimate goal, such as
closing the boulevard. Then it could make immediate recommendations for improvement and suggest that the remaining work be completed in phases, with the final closing five to 10 years later.
Wade said the plan would work only if groups making future construction or parking decisions were required to follow the long-range transportation plan.
Mulinazzi said the recommendation would close the boulevard in stages.
The first stage could institute short-range improvements that could be completed by next fall, including larger consolidated bus stops, bus rerouting and more restrictive booth controls.
If the administration approves the plan, it should take on the commitment of financing it over time, Wade said.
The second stage would include more structural changes, such as improvements to Memorial Drive, where much of the traffic would be rerouted if the boulevard were closed.
The final stage would close the boulevard, replacing the street with landscaping, benches and trees.
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