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UofL supports transportation alternatives which reduce the number of cars coming to campus and the amount of gasoline consumed.
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UofL seeks comments on possible changes to, elimination of TARC routes
Transit Authority of River City (TARC) has proposed changes to or elimination of several of its routes, including nine
express routes, effective July 1, 2012. UofL wants comments from campus bus riders by Tuesday, May 15th. The proposed changes include shortening the #29 route that runs through Belknap Campus on Eastern Parkway so that it ends near Bardstown Road and Cherokee Park rather than at Oxmoor Center on Shelbyville Road. TARC has also proposed a change to the #18 route that serves both Belknap and HSC which would eliminate its selected-trips service to the Camp Taylor area. UofL is crafting a response to TARC and wants to hear from all faculty, staff and students who use this
route, and from those who use other possibly affected routes. Email comments to Mitchell Payne at UofL. TARC also is taking public comments through Friday, May 18, on its website and at public meetings. Go here for info. |
 Green Commuting Superhero!
Take a load off yourself and the planet! Consider these fun, money-saving, environmentally-friendly alternatives for commuting to campus.
Why & How to Bike To UofL
Live on Campus!
- WALK! Why not live close enough to campus to walk? You'll arrive
refreshed and smiling instead of fuming over traffic, construction, and parking hassles. Learn how walking to campus can benefit the brain, as
well as the heart and pocketbook.
- CAR-SHARE! Live too far away to walk, bike or take the bus? Consider carpooling or vanpooling with your neighbors to share the burden on your budgets and relieve stress on the planet.
- Find or offer rides to campus through the UofL PickupPal Group or through Facebook using the University of Louisville Ride-Sharing site on 
- Use Ticket To Ride to set-up car- and van-pools throughout Kentuckiana.
- In Fall 2012, UofL plans to launch a new on-campus "We Car" Car-Share program which will allow students, employees, and departments to rent vehicles for a low hourly rate from a fuel-efficient fleet parked around campus.
FREE Campus Shuttles
"I work on HSC and have taken the #18
to get to classes or meetings on Belknap, and it has been a breeze in both directions. I really appreciate having this option available, as previously I had been driving. Since the bus comes so
often, I don't even check the schedule anymore."
- Diana
Pantalos, UofL Metabolic
Nutritionist
- Belknap-HSC Shuttles: TARC Route 4 and Route 18 now provide frequent shuttle service between UofL's two main campuses with just 15 minutes between buses! These routes also provide direct, frequent service to both UofL campuses from Iroquois Park/South Louisville (Route 4) and from Shively, Okolona/Preston Hwy (Route 18).
- Anyone can ride these and all TARC routes FREE by presenting a valid UofL ID to the driver.
 2010-2011 Cardinal Shuttle Ridership (Total = 771,287) - Belknap-Arena Shuttle: Take TARC to the game!
TARC operates a shuttle
service from Belknap Campus to the KFC Yum! Center for men's and women's
basketball games. The shuttle is free to UofL students and employees
with UofL ID. The TARC #4 shuttle will pick up passengers at the bus shelter at Fourth & Brandeis streets by Louisville Hall and drop them off near the corner of 2nd & Market streets. The return shuttle will pick up passengers at the corner of 5th & Jefferson streets until 11:30pm. Shuttle map. Shuttle schedule.
How Cards Get Around
"Think Outside the Car"
Check out the Transportation Alternatives Fair Photo
Gallery and Video.
 Biodiesel Program - UofL Engineering students helped produce renewable biodiesel for the Cardinal Shuttle from campus dining's waste vegetable oil. Fly Less
Headed to a conference, meeting or other trip for university business? Flying is the most polluting, carbon-intensive option. It's also the least comfortable with the most security hassles. On a per-passenger-mile basis, flying causes five to ten times as much pollution as ground-based options. Consider lower-impact, less sardine-like ways of getting where you need to go:
If you must fly or travel, consider offsetting your carbon emissions through a service such as Carbonfund.org.
Recent Developments
- Bicycle lanes will be installed on Cardinal Boulevard between Brook and 2nd Street by August 2012 (UofL Today, April 4, 2012)
- In 2012, as a direct result of UofL's Train-the-Trainers Program, funded by a grant from the Kentucky Bicycle and Bikeway Commission, Get Healthy Now is offering Safe Cycling Classes
for all UofL employees and participants in the Get Healthy Now program:
Location: Crawford Gym, Room 15
April 3 - May 8, 2012: Fridays, 11:00 a.m.
July 6 - August 10, 2012: Wednesdays, 2:00 p.m.
August 2 - November 6, 2012: Thursdays, 12:00 p.m.
Enroll here
The class is designed as a guide to various aspects
of safety, such as basic equipment maintenance, skills, and rules of
the road. The content is based on the League of American Bicyclists' national
BikeEd program. This central idea of this class is "Cyclists fare best when they act
and are treated as drivers of vehicles." Safe Cycling will help you to become a cyclist who rides with greater safety and confidence. Get Healthy Now encourages participants to ride bicycles for fun, fitness,
and transportation, leading to a happier and healthier person, planet, and safer environment for all.
 These new bike safety classes were made possible by funds generated through the purchase of "Share the Road" license plates by Kentucky motorists! Funding from the Paula Nye Memorial Education Grant has allowed UofL to:
1. Provide American League of Bicyclists Certified Instructors (through a subcontract with Bicycling for Louisville) to conduct free training to educators from university, high school and community organizations in bicycle
safety and confident cycling, in order for them to return to their respective institutions to train students and community members; and to provide the educational and curriculum materials needed
to train these educators and their future students; and
2. Create, post, and distribute bicycling maps as an additional means to educate people about safe means of bicycling on UofL campuses (reducing conflicts with pedestrians) and bicycling to campus by accessing bicycle gateways and connecting with Metro bike routes and public transit lines.
- The University is continuing its efforts to make living close to campus an attractive option for students, faculty and staff. Fall 2011 saw the opening of new student housing options adjacent to both Belknap campus and Health Sciences Center.
- The first phase of Cardinal Towne, a new affiliated student housing and retail development, opened in August 2011 on Cardinal Blvd between 3rd and 4th - right across the street from Belknap campus. Cardinal Towne features several green design elements, including accessible vegetated roofs; 170 covered and outdoor bike parking spaces; the ability to monitor energy use in each unit; some ceiling fans and day-lighting; and fully equipped kitchens for student cooking. Watch the video. A second phase will be open August 2012.
- Also in August 2011, new student housing opened at HSC. The Quad is a UofL-affiliated 27-apartment complex at
Hancock Street and Muhammad Ali Boulevard, right next door to the Clinical and Translational Research Building. It is one piece of a larger project, known as The Edge at Liberty Green,
which will provide mixed-use, mixed-income, environmentally-friendly
housing for employees and students within blocks of our Health Sciences
Center
and within biking distance of Belknap Campus. Development continues on
hundreds of units of various green-designed housing types and sizes for
both purchase
or rent. The Sustainability Council invites everyone in the UofL
community to explore this exciting, new option in low-impact,
healthy, urban living! - TARC makes trip planning more convenient for students and employees!
TARC has joined the Google Transit partnership program, a
network that provides bus routing and bus stop data in more than 400
cities, and has added a link to the Google trip planner to its website. The trip planner allows users to find such information as bus routes,
estimated travel times and even walking directions to the nearest TARC
stop. UofL students, faculty and staff can always ride TARC for free by showing their UofL ID. “For University
of Louisville students, this improvement in accessibility could be the tipping
point between buying a parking pass and driving their car to campus or riding
the bus.” -The Louisville Cardinal (December 6, 2011) TARC
pairs with Google for quicker transit planning
- Check out UofL's new Bicycle Master Plan! As a part of our campus master planning efforts, UofL has developed
comprehensive plans for making our campuses more walkable and bike-friendly and
we are working with Metro government and surrounding neighborhoods to
improve linkages with citywide bike
routes. Our Bicycle Master Plan provides guidance for facilities, signage, surface
treatments, and pathways that are designed to encourage bicycling while
enhancing the safety of bicyclists and pedestrians on all three of our
campuses.
- In line with our Bicycle Master Plan, UofL
is worked throughout 2011 with Bike Louisville and area neighborhood groups to
create a plan for a safe network of on-street bike facilities to campus. We
especially need a northbound route from Cardinal Blvd that provides
safe,
(s)low-traffic connectivity with our Health Sciences Center and
downtown. Despite resistance to the idea from Metro Public Works, we still think
this is an ideal test-case for Louisville's first dedicated Bike
Boulevard with
limited, local-access-only auto traffic (learn about Portland, Oregon's bike boulevards
with this great video). The plan for Old
Louisville bike corridors developed through this process is available for review here.
- New bike racks were installed in 2010 at priority locations (most covered) on HSC and Shelby campuses. We're looking to install several new bike shelters and dozens of new bike racks
(funding permitting) around Belknap campus in 2012. The first
installations in 2012 were four new large racks at the north
entrance to Louisville Hall.
- Nearly 300 employees for UofL's vendors/contractors (including Sodexo, the University Club, SSC Service Solutions, and City Café) came under UofL's agreement with TARC in Fall 2011 to allow them free access to the entire bus system.
- In 2010, UofL adopted a No Idling Policy for all vehicles owned by the University of Louisville or its affiliates or operated by any employee or contractor of the university during the course of their job duties at the university. The policy states, "All vehicles should be turned off when not in use or when the driver leaves the vehicle for any length of time. Equipment should not be left idling more than 1 minute and should be turned off unless doing so would hurt its operation." There are a few stated exceptions to this policy. View the full policy here.
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