Master Plan > Recommendations and Implementation Strategies > Primary Planning Issues > Circulation and Wayfinding >
Vehicular Circulation
Recommendations:
- Emphasize main entrance on campus maps and with signage
- Remove UW-Green Bay signs from the Nicolet Drive Entrance and enhance signage at the main entrance
- Encourage users familiar with campus to use the secondary ingress/egress points on a daily basis and route event traffic in and out of these secondary points
- Establish the Inner Loop Road as the primary wayfinding and circulation route for unfamiliar cam-pus users and access for service and emergency vehicles
- Design for and post 25 mph speed limit
- Inner Loop Road is 24’-0” wide, accommodates two lanes of traffic
- Roadway has curb and gutter
- Street terrace on either side of road is 8’-0”
- Terrace planted with zone-hardy street trees spaced approximately 40’-0” on center
- Locate 8’-0” sidewalk on the inner and/or outer side of the roadway depending on optimal pedestrian connections to campus buildings
- Locate a separate 8’-0” bicycle lane adjacent to the sidewalk
- Seek to maintain a minimum 12’-0” landscape buffer between the outer sidewalk and any parking lot
- Locate traffic tables wherever major pedestrian/vehicular intersections occur (approximately every 350’-400’) along the Inner Loop Road
- Discourage cross campus traffic on the Inner Loop Road through regulatory and operational measures
- Maintain Circle Drive as a primary campus user circulation system
- Design for and post 35 mph speed limit
- Continue the rural, pastoral character
- Do not implement curb and gutter
- Ensure all roadway intersections occur at perpendiculars for safety and wayfinding
- Locate a small, urban roundabout at the intersection of Circle Drive and Sports Center Drive
Implementation:
- Construct the Inner Loop Road
- Realign existing segments adjacent to parking areas when lots comes on-line for repair
- Construct segments as a portion of building projects in proximity to a specific segment
- Realign intersections for safety and wayfinding purposes
- Construct roundabout at intersection of Circle Drive and Sports Center Drive
- Coordinate roundabout construction at Nicolet Entrance with City of Green Bay and Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Inner Loop Road
The character of this roadway is pedestrian in nature, and has a more urban feel. It promotes slower speeds by using traffic tables, cross walks, and other traffic calming measures.
Arterial Roadway
The character of roadways at the perimeter of campus is best depicted by a beautiful stone wall and native plantings along Sports Center Drive. These roadways are transit-oriented with higher travel speeds and naturalized plantings. Land along arterial roadways can be set aside for future bicycle lanes.