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UCD Sustainable Transportation Plan Open for Public Review Through May 4

Students navigate a mix of bikes, e-scooters, skateboards, and foot traffic on campus—illustrating the growing complexity of how people move through the Davis campus. (Courtesy photo / UC Davis)

(From press release) UC Davis is inviting the broader Davis community to review and comment on a draft of its updated sustainable transportation plan through May 4.

The plan—called Moving Forward Together—has been in development for over a year and outlines more than 100 possible improvements for how people get to and move through campus, from safer crossings and separated bike paths to better transit connections. It marks the first comprehensive update since 2009, with recommendations supported by input from more than 3,000 people, along with an analysis of travel patterns, infrastructure gaps, and collision data.

Why this plan matters

UC Davis has been a national leader in biking and transit for decades. Today, roughly 40,000 people travel to campus each day, supported by one of the most extensive campus bike networks in the country and a highly utilized transit system.

This plan builds on that foundation while addressing today’s challenges–including evolving travel modes. It also positions UC Davis to secure outside funding – a critical step, as the cost of improvements represented within the plan far exceeds university funding levels. Many state and federal programs require an adopted plan before awarding grants, making this a critical step toward advancing future safety and infrastructure improvements.

Why Davis community input is needed

Transportation at UC Davis doesn’t stop at the campus edge. Many of the busiest corridors and crossings—where campus and community meet—are shared spaces. This plan includes possible improvements in those areas, making input from the broader Davis community especially important. 

The public is invited to visit https://campusplanning.ucdavis.edu/moving-forward-together to explore the interactive map and comment on specific projects or review the full plan and share feedback via email at movingforward@ucdavis.edu through May 4.

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One response to “UCD Sustainable Transportation Plan Open for Public Review Through May 4”

  1. Eileen Samitz

    What needs to prioritized for this UCD transportation study is for UCD to start with planning far more on-campus, higher density student housing and to build the long- promised faculty and staff housing. This would reduce the traffic impacts UCD is causing.

    UCD is pushing roughly 60% of its enormous student population (40,000 now) off campus which is causing huge traffic impacts on the City. UCD has over 5,300 acres and a 900-acre core campus, the largest in teh UC system, yet they are only one of 2 UCs (land-locked Berkeley is the other) who are not committed to building 50% on campus student housing. West Village has a huge number of acres reserved for housing that is sitting dormant for years now.

    The best way for UCD to improve its transportation problems and reduce the impacts they are causing Davis and other communities, is by housing far more students on campus housing like all the other UCs are doing, and building far-higher density student housing like UC Irvine and UC San Diego. Since those UCs can accomplish this, so can UCD. UCD just needs to stop prioritizing their vanity projects and focus on the housing needs of their students like the other UCs are.

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