Peace, Love, and Bicycles: Staying Friendly for Bikes

 Fill out a cycling survey - we'd love your feedback!

Have you seen improvements in recent years you’d like to comment on, or do you have a comment about how programming could be improved to make cycling more safe on campus. This is just the type of feedback the league is seeking from our community, click through below: 

How we became a bicycle-friendly campus:

It doesn’t take too much time to notice, in our branding, or on our campus, Bicycling is engrained into the UC Davis experience. We are proud of the tradition we’ve carried on, started by Chancellor, Emil Mrak’s 1961 request to Campus Planners to "build a bicycle-riding, tree-lined, campus.” Not long after, in 1967, the Campus core was closed to motor vehicles, and thus began the major expansion of a bicycle forward University. Throughout the next decades major infrastructure projects occurred on, and off, campus, where bicycle parking, dedicated paths, and general improvements, put bicycling to the forefront of transportation in Davis. 

Now, we’re proud of more than 30,000 parking spots for bicyclists, with over 27 miles of bicycle network. It's no surprise that more than 1 in 3 Aggies ride a bicycle regularly for their commute. 

Recent Betterment for Bicycling:

The last few years have seen a number of improvements that better bicycling at UC Davis. With the opening of Orchard Park, we added a few thousand new residents on campus in a Bicycle Oriented Development. Just a few years before, catalyzed by The Green, other improvements like the new Cycletrack over 113 along Hutchinson, which added a bicycle signal controlled intersection at the highway interchange. This path will be continued when construction on the Resnick Center for Agricultural Innovation project finishes, bringing bikes and pedestrians from West Village to the UC Davis Rec Pool, on fully separated infrastructure. 

Some other partnerships worth mentioning: 

Moving Forward Together, with the Office of Campus Planning, will be doing one final effort of public outreach this Fall Quarter. Come find us to hear about upcoming projects, and to participate in the scoping of upcoming projects that are entering their exploratory planning phases. Read about what we’re learned insofar.

Bike Parking Improvements have been happening all over campus, thanks to a partnership with the Facilities Management Landscape Architecture team. Our newest improvement is finishing right now outside Plant & Environmental Sciences, with other recent projects done to regrade, repair, update, and add bike parking at locations which needed update, or expansions. Some places to see other parking improvements: behind George Hart Hall, across from the ASUCD Coffee House, at Schall Pool, Hunt Hall, and some other improvements coming soon. 

Well wishes for Fall Quarter

Ride well Aggies! May your start to Fall Quarter be filled with good rides, and success in the term ahead. Remember to wear a helmet, free from Helmet Hair Don’t Care, and to be ready for time change, upcoming on November 2nd, review Lit Not Hit for tips. 

✌️❤️🚲

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