UA is working to improve biking in and around campus, but with the topography, numerous construction sites, and more students every semester biking on campus can be quite intimidating. The map below shows some routes that make biking around campus a more pleasant experience by avoiding steep hills and high pedestrian traffic areas. For more details, click items on the map or click the link at the base of the map.
To make it easier for more students to bike (and not drive) the campus should:
1. Build more bike racks at dorms and other locations where overflow has been witnessed.
2. Mark designated bike lanes on some paths through campus and on major roads around campus like Maple St., Arkansas Ave., and Garland Ave.
3. Close more roads through campus to non-essential vehicular traffic, at least during class hours. Campuses feel more like campuses when there aren't lots of cars driving through them anyways. If you've ever been on Ozark Ave. near the end of Dickson between classes, you know that cars shouldn't be trying to drive through there. I think the rest of Garland and Ozark Ave. would be good places to start closing more roads.
For useful sites and more information on biking on campus read this.
View Campus Bike Routes in a larger map
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