Comments on: UM: Wising Up To Transit http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/08/22/um-wising-up-to-transit/ Moving Together, Faster Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:54:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: FIU student http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/08/22/um-wising-up-to-transit/#comment-9333 FIU student Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:40:35 +0000 http://www.transitmiami.com/?p=2644#comment-9333 FIU needs to do this now! Great initiative by UM. FIU needs to do this now! Great initiative by UM.

]]> By: Ellen http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/08/22/um-wising-up-to-transit/#comment-9243 Ellen Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:27:27 +0000 http://www.transitmiami.com/?p=2644#comment-9243 UM bookstore also is selling bikes to UM students [only] for around $60 each to discourage car usage. UM bookstore also is selling bikes to UM students [only] for around $60 each to discourage car usage.

]]> By: Tony Garcia http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/08/22/um-wising-up-to-transit/#comment-9175 Tony Garcia Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:15:16 +0000 http://www.transitmiami.com/?p=2644#comment-9175 The work on the serpentine lot was iffy for me at first too, but the native landscaping that they replaced the berms with won me over. As far as green space is concerned, I would rather have smaller spots that are native, than large fields of grass. Remember the maintenance of those pretty green hills is accomplished on a diesel powered lawnmower. Certainly the U can do better with its open space and planting more natives, but in this case they didn't do all bad. (Not to mention that a building is planned for this site in the not too distant future.) The work on the serpentine lot was iffy for me at first too, but the native landscaping that they replaced the berms with won me over. As far as green space is concerned, I would rather have smaller spots that are native, than large fields of grass. Remember the maintenance of those pretty green hills is accomplished on a diesel powered lawnmower. Certainly the U can do better with its open space and planting more natives, but in this case they didn’t do all bad. (Not to mention that a building is planned for this site in the not too distant future.)

]]> By: JM Palacios http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/08/22/um-wising-up-to-transit/#comment-9174 JM Palacios Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:11:48 +0000 http://www.transitmiami.com/?p=2644#comment-9174 Now if only FAU would follow this example. Despite the fact that they have a lovely new bicycle path connecting them directly to the Tri-Rail station, they continue to charge a mandatory parking fee even for people like me who will not be driving to class. Now if only FAU would follow this example. Despite the fact that they have a lovely new bicycle path connecting them directly to the Tri-Rail station, they continue to charge a mandatory parking fee even for people like me who will not be driving to class.

]]> By: barney http://www.transitmiami.com/2008/08/22/um-wising-up-to-transit/#comment-9172 barney Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:51:57 +0000 http://www.transitmiami.com/?p=2644#comment-9172 Not only that, but UM is FINALLY subsidizing transit passes for employees, but in an odd way that leaves employees with a choice of either transit or parking but no way to combine the two. However, in an example of one step forward, two steps back, UM continues to pave its green space. The Coral Gables campus has expanded the serpentine parking lot fronting Ponce de Leon leaving little more than a hedge where once was a sweeping (well for south florida anyway) green and the main entrance road to campus is terminated by one of the most pathetic examples of the high cost of the personal automobile on civic spaces (the sacrifice of open green space to loose gravel parking lots resembling a perpetual construction zone mud and dust included). Not only that, but UM is FINALLY subsidizing transit passes for employees, but in an odd way that leaves employees with a choice of either transit or parking but no way to combine the two.

However, in an example of one step forward, two steps back, UM continues to pave its green space. The Coral Gables campus has expanded the serpentine parking lot fronting Ponce de Leon leaving little more than a hedge where once was a sweeping (well for south florida anyway) green and the main entrance road to campus is terminated by one of the most pathetic examples of the high cost of the personal automobile on civic spaces (the sacrifice of open green space to loose gravel parking lots resembling a perpetual construction zone mud and dust included).

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