By Shelby Klingerman

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Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Eric Monday emailed the campus Monday afternoon about UK’s Transportation Master Plan, which aims to streamline overall mobility around campus.

The survey, which runs through March 6, is looking for feedback about problems with campus transportation and possible solutions.

“The TMP aligns with our Campus Master Plan — the blueprint for our campus transformation that’s allowing us to become a national model for a thriving, public residential research campus,” Monday wrote in the email. “This transformation, however, presents new challenges with regard to parking and transportation.”

The survey asks students, faculty and staff to detail their time spent on campus, then indicate the amount of time they think appropriate for travel and prioritize their parking and transportation needs.

UK partnered with Sasaki Associates, a Boston-based planning firm, to create the Transportation Master Plan.

There were two public forums in January that addressed problems with transportation and explained the Master Plan.

The guiding principles of the Transportation Master Plan are to “enhance campus mobility and access, promote and support safety, foster environmental sustainability, right size parking supply and allocation, accommodate campus growth and transformation and assure financial self-sufficiency,” according to the open forum presentations.

Although the survey aims to identify and present solutions for parking issues, UK spokesman Jay Blanton wrote in an email to the Kentucky Kernel that some solutions are already underway.

The Orange parking lot, at the corner of Alumni and University drives, will grow by about 60 spots. A new 230-space lot on the northwest corner of Scott Street will be completed before the start of the fall semester, and construction near Commonwealth Stadium will end in late summer, returning about 700 parking spots to campus, Blanton wrote in the email.

Students who park in the Commonwealth Stadium parking lots, like journalism freshman Kelsey Mattingly, use buses that run from the lots to campus.

“I think it’s good that they want our input about transportation, but I don’t think that’s the biggest issue,” Mattingly said. “It’s more of a parking issue because I wouldn’t have to worry about bus transportation as much if I had a closer place to my dorm to park.”

On the other hand, business finance freshman Dana Kerr talked about bus routes that run from campus to areas near Fayette Mall.

“I don’t have a car at school,” Kerr said. “I have tried the bus route before and felt okay about it, but it was hard to know when to be there or when I would be dropped off. It kind of stressed me out, so I don’t like to mess with it much anymore.”