[OldNorth] UC Davis to Downtown circulation

[Valerie Vann]

The following from the City web page:

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Open House Meeting
Concepts to Improve Circulation Connections and Wayfinding Between UC Davis
and Downtown Davis 

Wednesday, June 29, 2005, 7:00 – 9:00 PM,
Teen Center Basement at “3rd and B”,
303 Third Street, Davis

The City of Davis, UC Davis and the Davis Downtown Business Association are
co-sponsoring an open house meeting to present concepts for improving
circulation connections and wayfinding between UC Davis and Downtown Davis.
Public comments on the concepts are requested. 

The concepts to be presented include:  

First Street and A Street intersection; 
First Street; 
Mondavi Center to downtown shuttle; 
Arboretum east entry; 
Third Street corridor; and 
Mondavi Center to downtown pedestrian corridor / “arts walk”. 
The workshop will be facilitated by the consultant team of Winsler & Kelly
engineers, Wallace, Roberts & Todd landscape architects & planners, and staff
from the City of Davis and UC Davis. 

For more information 

Contact: Bob Wolcott, City of Davis Community Development Department, (530)
757-5610, rwolcott at cityofdavis.org or Karl Mohr, UCD Office of Resource
Management and Planning, (530) 754-9617, kfmohr at ucdavis.edu.
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Shortly after the opening of the Mondavi Center
I pointed out to the Mondavi management and various other
organizations concerned with transportation that while 
I live in the center of Davis, Mondavi might as well be
on the far side of the moon, since "you can't get there
from here" by public transit, a situation that is even worse
on weekends and evenings. Mondavi seems to have been
primarily planned as a "regional" center for the 
well-heeled equipped with private autos, and to be 
accessed from the freeway.

The Mondavi Web site's directions all assume approach
from I-80.

Valerie Vann
valerie at vanngroup.com