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Commissioner seeks UGA follow-up after campus ban on wheeled travel; university liaison says planning grant may fund study
Summary
Athens in Motion commissioners discussed University of Georgia's new rolling plan that restricts wheeled vehicles on campus pathways. A commissioner who met with a UGA official reported the official is sympathetic and that a pending campus planning grant could support engagement and longer-term infrastructure changes.
A member of the Athens in Motion Commission reported a recent informal meeting with a University of Georgia official about the university's new rolling plan, which restricts scooters and other wheeled travel on many campus pathways and has pushed bicycle traffic to perimeter roads that lack continuous protected lanes.
Art (commissioner) said he met with Dan Silk of UGA to convey concerns that the plan effectively forces people who ride bikes across…
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