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Message: [QUOTE="SubbaBub, post: 1293970, member: 523"] If you want to over simplify things you can break it down in to motorized and non-motorized transit. Urban settings require more of the later. You then break down motorized transit into auto and mass transit. Having a mature mass transit system exponentially increases access and allows for greater density. It's usually not an issue for colleges, unless you don't play games on Campus, ahem. For autos, you have various levels of access but for simplicity sake you can call them Interstate and non-interstate (local). To maximize accessibility, you need the correct mix, especially if you can't support full interstate access. Now in CT, we were amongst the first to build highways, (1936). And not knowing what the 20th century would bring, we simply built along old trade/postal routes from large city to large city. That means every damn, highway in the state goes right through the most densely populated part of every city and town and when two highways meet (84/91, 91/95, 84/8, etc) it happens right in the city center. Not going to the city center? F-u, you must cram in there with everyone who is. Systems out west generally have a route around the downtown, or a ring road around the metro area, in addition to the routes into the melee. Uconn's problem is it is disconnect from both Industry, population, and technology that resides in the state. Transportation is the solution to that. ESPN has been in the state for 35 years, NBC SPORTS is too. You'd think Uconn would sending a hundred interns and coops there every year from the communications dept, or the business dept, or the IT/CS/Engineering depts. Same for United Technologies, the Ins. Co., the financial institutions. Storrs would be a 2 hr train ride to Wall Street if it existed or a 30 min ride to Hartford. And it's not just students. Faculty and researchers would have greater access to these industry's and many others. It is a PITA, to get to Storrs from anywhere west or south of Hartford. That doesn't have an effect? Forget about football, a light rail or busway into Hartford would roll right through the parking lot. The bus way busses could probably pack 150-200 kids a piece. The trip would take under 30 minute campus to gate, no waiting. That wouldn't help attendance? So, when the Big Ten says transportation, that's what they mean. [/QUOTE]

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