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A PROPOSAL FOR A
PEDESTRIAN—ORIENTED CAMPUS
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PREP AR ED J 0 INTLY BY
THE O FFICE OF FACILITIES: PLANNING & UTILIZATION.
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THE, OFFICE'OF TRAWSPORTATION& S ECURITY
IN Co WITH
TH E,HOD NE/S T AG EB E RG PAR rn E RS, INC.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA '
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THE STATE UNIVERSITY. OF IOWA.,';
IOWA CITY, IOWA
JUNE, 1973
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TABLE OF CONTENTS''
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INTRODUCTION.
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NEED FOR CIRCULATION STUDY. •'•i' '
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STATEMENT OF GOALS AND OBJECTIVES •i.
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'CURRENT
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SPECIFIC IMPROVEI4ENTS'
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CAMPUSt CIRCULATION.
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LIST OF FIGURES
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THE CAMPUS ZONE.
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MAJOR THRU,ISTREET PENETRATION OF THE'CAMPUS ZONE
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DIRECT RE-ROUTING PROPOSALS.
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DIVERSIONARY PROPOSALS
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REGIONAL CIRCULATION .
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INTERIM CIRCULATION PLAN
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LONG RANGE ''CIRCULATION PLAN
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MELROSE-BU RLINGTON'STREET DIAGONAL PROPOSAL...
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REL �ATIVE .TRAFFIC VOLUME. .'.'
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V.A UNIVERSITY'ACCESS�TO'6 218. ,',
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CLOSED' MADISON STREET AND ALTERNATE ROUTES
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OTHER PROPOSED STREET VACATIONS. :...
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need access to various.,facilities.However,nthe matters of user convenience
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issues`. must bring progress toward tha*tio A
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and shuttle buses and other forms of;,
transit designedfor intra -campus conveyance of
persons.
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The areas'of the 'campus intended to be covered
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by, this goal and the objectives which!follow are
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in the form of small parcels of privately held land,
Urban Renewal land intended for University acquisi-
tion, and the major exception of the V.A. Hospital
property, the delineated areas are owned by the
University. The V. A. Hospital has been included in
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the area because of its close relationships with the
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OBJEC TIVES:
To create large zones of traffic -free academic "islands" which; offer
the potential for further consolidation into pedestrian -oriented areas,
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To rovide for the
p separation of vehicles from pedestrian movement
at remaining points, of conflict.
3. To resist successfully any street or tra is ,improvement"
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which would result in increased traffic through the campus.
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To divert non -university destined traffic around the campus zone.
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5. To provide adequate parking facilities for vehicles destinedf or
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the campus on the perimeter of the pedestrian -oriented, zone.
This objective has two exceptions which require relatively
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(a) Healthcare faczlities'such as University and
Psychopathic Hospital, and (b):audience/conference
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Ifacilities such.as Hancher Auditorium and the Iowa
MemoriaZ Union which attract vehicles on 'periodic
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I6. To,provide an intra-emnpus non -automobile transit system to -serve
perimeter' parkingfacilities and to move,people from one part of
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1' CURRENT PROBLEMS.
Figure 2 illustrates the traffic problems as now perceived by the University.
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Figure 2'shows the campus zone and its many, penetrations 'by major city streets
Iand highways. Among the 'penetrations are: 1) Melrose Avenue,- which is now
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Yen mjor east -west arterial street; 2) 6-218/`
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Riverside Drive - the federal/state highway which completely divides the east
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campus from the west campus; 3) Jefferson -Madison - theimajor city east -west
one-way"street pair which divides the Clinton Street dormitory complex, a
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Inumber of academic buildings and the Iowa Memorial Union from the balance of
the east side campus; and finally, 4) the western portion of Iowa Avenue and
the Iowa Avenue bridge facility which funnels in excess of 14,000 cars per
day around the Pentacrest.
Current City plans, formulated ins connection with Urban, Renewal development,
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artery where it patses through the campus
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Iowa Avenue and the Iowa Avenuebri'd a have long
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the circulation problems of,the campus. As mentioned above, ,they carry
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iii -excess' of 14,000 cars a day. These 'car's must pass along one or more
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sides of.,.the Pentacrest.and through the campus>on their way to or from Iowa
Avenue. 'As long as this path is open, it will be necessary also for the
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streets feeding ;it on the east side of the river..to be open. 'These include
Madison,Jefferson, Market and Washington Streets, all `of which pass through
the campus:
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The Um versity believes that"Iowa Avenue of the Pentacrest can be 11
closed to traffic if changes are made in the facility feeding it on the
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west= 6 218/Riverside Drive. These changes must serve to relocate the
traffic from that facility and improve>the capacity of',the Burlington
Street/Riverside Drive, intersection. (This assumes -that the intersection,
not the bridge, which is estimated to have a capacity of from 40,000 to
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50,000 cars per day against present volumes of'18,000 cars per day, is the
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river crossing limitation at this location.)
Given the above :assumptions the;, University has directed its attention to the
possibilities for modification of the 6-218/Riverside Drive function as it
'passes'through
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Although plans for the southwest Iowa City bypass, Freeway 518, have not been'
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finalized, the University has assumed that this facility wi1T be built in, the
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near future. This assumption is consistent with the preponderance of,judg-
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ment on this point at this time and with the 'position of support for this:
facility consistently taken by the University. When this facility is completed
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there will be a'significant change in the function of 6-218/Riverside Drive
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as 'it passes through the Community,and.the University -- it will no
longer, carry, regional traffic, that will. mi vi'a the Freeway, leaving,
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for the most part, only 'local" traffic on 6-218/Riverside Drive. The
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believes that with this change in character, if not volume,
of traffic on 6-218/Riverside Drive it will become possible to re-route
this
traffic away from the center of the campus.'
SPECIFIC IMPROVEMENTS
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In order,to accomplish the re-routing of traffic from 6-218/Riverside
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Drive as it passes through the campus, four circulation changes are
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suggested: Two of these changes would result in the direct re-routing
of the existing facility. The remaining two changes would divert traffic
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from the facility. It is believed that all suggestions are consistent
with good regional and community circulation plans.
The first.change, in two versions, is shown in Figure 3. They are labeled
A-1 and A=2. In both versions the improvement would re-route existing
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6-218/Riverside Drive from an avenue going through the campus to one going
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around it. Specifically, 6-21& would be routed from a point near its inter-
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section with Rocky Shore Drive south across the east end of the lower
Finkbine Golf Course to the Rock Island Railroad where it would veer south-
east and parallel the railroad tracks town intersection with Melrose Avenue..
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From this point, in the short-range or interim version of the relocation,
A-1, the route ,would follow Melrose Avenue east to'a point east of its inter-
section with South Grand Avenue at which point it would move diagonally
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northeast ,to the intersection of 6-218/Riverside Drive and BurlingtonStreet.
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In the long-range', version, A-2, relocated 6-218 would continue southward
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Melrose Avenue and continue to parallel the railroad tracks into the
area east of the Iowa River at which point it would connect with the north-
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south arterial system.
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2) it'would not o through an established neighborhood
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3) it would open undeveloped 'and inaccessible land for development. '
The second diversionary improvement, labeled D, is a connection between
218 south of Iowa City with Gilbert Street. This improvement would provide
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a more direct and continuous north -south arterial through the Community
than presently provided. fIt would permit the river':crossing to occur in 'an
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uncongested rather than the Benton Burlington
area at congested Street or
Street bridges and would reduce pressure o a -2 8- r
n the Highway 6 1 1 intersection.
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The regional effect of the above four modifications is shown in Figure 5'
which also, -show s the campus area that could then be freed of through traffic.
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As was stated"earlier, it is believed that the suggested modifications would
result in improvements in city-wide circulation in addition to benefiting
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the University.
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CAMPUS CIRCULATION'
Figure 6 shows how circulation on the campus could be modified with the above
'discussed
street improvements. This figure has been labeled our "interim
plan" in that it features an interim or short-range relocation for 6-218:
Several features of this plan require discussion:
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With the exception of those streets so identified And keyed in
Figure 6, all other streets in the "Campus Zone" would be. limited'
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to special purpose circulation functions and would not function
as public streets.Certain streets would actually be closed to
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all traffic.
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The large' circle.shown at the Melrose Avenue Railroad crossing bridgee
is intended to point out'a specific design problem which will be
discussed later.
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their ability;to meet Community requirements:"
testing to
determine
Assuming
that the results" of testiing will be positive, the University is
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to take spec�fic.,positions on a variety"of immediate circulation
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issues.
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The Melrose-Burling ton Street diagonal proposal by the City Is
acceptable to the University in cPt Within the context of
our preceding proposals. At such time as the City wishes to
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of the balance of Melrose Avenue (from
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South Grand Avenue to the Railroad bridge).
"believes 'that if ':6 2l8/Riverside 'Drive is relocated
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(per these proposals) the traffic volumes carried by the re-
located facility will be heavier thanithose on Melrosel,to the
Fi he Area Transportation Study substantiates
west (Figure 9). If t
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on there wil
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lationship between these two facilities and their intersection.
(These matters should be checked before the balance of'the Melrose
project is carried 0 t'�for they may affect thelmanner in which
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this improvement is designed.)i'
for access
3. The University Joins the V.A. Hospital in its request
to 6-218 between V.A. and the Westlawn curve (Figure 10). The
details need to be worked out join V.A., the
precise
precise
University,Iowa City 'and the 'Highway Commission.
q. The University wishes to renew its request that Madison Street,
between Iowa Avenue and Burlington Street, be closed immediately!
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as an immediately, reachable step" toward achievement of the
pedestrian campus. Uponthe closing ofMadison Street,'�
Washington Street between Madison and South Capitol will cease ;
to have a thoroughfare function and can also be vacated.
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5. A number of streets in the north area of the east side campus
are completely surrounded by University property and serve no 41
community -traffic function. The University requests City con-
sideration that these streets be vacated 12 -i re . The
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1 .Davenport"Street between North ,Capitol and Clinton Street '
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3. ,JNorth Capitol Street between Davenport Street"and
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THE UNIVERSI
;TY -OF IOWA
CAMPUSAND THE CAR: ;A; STATEMENT OF POLICY
The University of Iowa campus once enjoyed freedom ;fro'm,any ' but ped
.traffic. But eventually the �campus estrian
P expanded beyond �is known as�the
entacrest.and through -campus traffic by horse and latere
'Picture., car.6nt
TheUniversity seeks to return �to the .�by red the
e .past in this sense.
The-, c0mmot ion 'Of traffic isdistracting and unpleasant in the general '.en-
.'
."vironmen outside the librariesdclassrooms There is simply
plyno
naturalplace in an academic
community forcars, trucksi and bu es -;especially
'whenthere: �are
alternatives through fare -sighted planning
An Important first;step ,in the over-all .;plah, jo., f ree2:the'camipus, rom
,'th'oroughfares, is, repres'einte'&16 the
61.ii . icW.h"'theosi
ywith
Health -,C6"
nteri'campus;where,
wi t" cl 'ng ofiNewton Road and the
I re-routing of Glenview Road.and Woolf
Avenue,' a1arge area 'around .Universit Y,Pospital's will be all;b6t
service
vehicles. ,:�':
The University of Iowa will take:, eyery,,� opportunity, to extend to itsentire,
campus 7,- especially, the'area ftom,,the; P6ntacrest west l , across I .
:.Woolf i „the, river to
n e�conceptof!a�pedesh
Avenue pedestrian vial do :t is;because we
�believe
,it is impractical (even though 't
ugh technicall
technically .feasible, to
reconcile ever-increasing automobile
traffic through thecampus with require
ments., for,thought, study, contemplation;; concentration and,creativity
On:the'other hand we believe liev it is entirely practical for future, trans-
portation planning to
recognizethe stake of thd.University in a vehicle-
freecampus.. Of course,the campusmust, be accessible to
.users
� and.certain vehi6ids'wiliha�e'to go directly to certain facili ies. However,
the matters
of user convenience and servicing are distinct istinct from the question o high-
volume Jhorougfifams:'or,"airte ri a1 reets throu h
9 �the ,heart of .the campus.
In short, , the; University seeks to encouragea, vision of the:ca' '
campus in which
theltraffic-free zone (originally the Penta6rest
only) is to therealityofpresent-dayinstitutional size.
Si
An: important practical "fringe benefit" from returning the campus to aitraffic-
free:condition lies inland use flexibility. Without
the streets that now
.�dissect %the east 'campus, new vistas would be opened for thle, siting of, buildings.:
There:Would
be more land available for, greensward or buildings
!Another, practical; considerati 'on associated with the campusand vehicular,
:traffic :is that ofpedestrian j safety from automobiles.
While this is not ex-
clusively a problem ofa university campus, of course, and while' it is
technically� easy to solve, the resolution does noithing to remove the ob-
jectionsto auto traffic that
are. unique to a campus setting.
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