TAPS Content

NEWS BRIEFS: Parking Rates Going Up July 1

Dave Jones — May 07, 2019 - 12:35pm

In an email to parking permit holders today (May 7), Transportation Services, or TAPS, announced that it will raise fees $5 a month for most faculty and staff permits effective July 1, the first increases for employee permits since 2017.

TAPS also announced permit holders will be assessed a new fee of $10 a month to use the campus’s electric vehicle charging stations.

Why Drive?

Cody Kitaura — January 23, 2018 - 10:22am

The longer your commute to campus, the more likely you are to drive it alone. That’s what researchers have long found with the annual Campus Travel Survey, and that’s what Transportation Services is hoping to find ways to counteract.

“How can we reduce barriers to more sustainable commuting?” asked Eleni Jacobson, who is working on Transportation Services’ “Transportation Tomorrow” initiative to reduce the number of single-occupancy vehicle trips to campus by 10 percent by the year 2027.

NEWS BRIEFS: Monthly Parking Rates Going Up

Dave Jones — May 30, 2017 - 8:59pm

The annual parking permit renewal process is underway, bringing with it rate increases effective July 1 for many permits including the most popular, A, C and L.

There will be no rate increases for carpoolers’ or vanpoolers’ permits, as a reward for staff, faculty and students who choose to ride together, “and to encourage others to explore these mode-share options,” Cliff Contreras said in his annual director’s letter from Transportation Services, or TAPS.

Stack Parking Coming to 2 Locations Feb. 13

Cody Kitaura — February 07, 2017 - 9:00am

It’s normal for the winter weather to push more people to drive to campus instead of walking or biking. It’s not normal for some of the campus’s parking lots to be more than 90 percent full.

While Transportation Services, or TAPS, works to develop additional strategies to avoid the very expensive cost of building another parking garage, it will provide a temporary solution: stack parking.

Stack Parking: A Temporary Solution for Full Lots

Cody Kitaura — September 13, 2016 - 11:00am

As empty parking spaces become harder to find at �ٺ��Ƶ, transportation officials are readying a stopgap while they plan new ways to encourage faculty, staff and students to take alternative transportation.

“As the campus population grows, more people are likely to drive unless we develop additional incentives that support our customers’ needs,” said Cliff Contreras, director of Transportation Services, or TAPS.

Drivers and Researchers Share the Road

Dave Jones — September 12, 2016 - 1:34pm

Updated 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12: Construction has been delayed, and is now scheduled to begin Sept. 19 and conclude a week later, Sept. 26.

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Pavement researchers are literally building an experiment into a road construction project west of Highway 113, and, in the process, laying down a mile of new surface on two campus roads that badly need it.

�ٺ��Ƶ Bike Expert David Takemoto-Weerts Retiring

Cody Kitaura — May 24, 2016 - 12:25pm

When �ٺ��Ƶ bike guru David Takemoto-Weerts takes a vacation trip to a city, he doesn’t photograph the usual landmarks.

“I’ll ask to see his pictures and they’re all of bike racks,” said his wife, Barbara Takemoto-Weerts.