Emory Campus Master Plan: Parking and Traffic

Parking and Traffic

Perhaps the most challenging aspect of this planning effort is accommodation of parking and traffic. Fully resolving these issues will require more comprehensive planning (with CDC, Dekalb County, MARTA, the VA Hospital, Egleston Hospital, and others along Clifton Corridor) than this effort can address. While these initiatives are on-going, the over-riding concept of the physical plan as it relates to challenges and principles is to remove the majority of surface parking and non-essential traffic from the core campus. This can best be accomplished incrementally, by dividing the projected needs for parking into a series of new structured parking facilities.

One, at University Apartments, will be serviced by shuttle bus only through a bridge across the CSX railroad line behind Turman Residential Center. Another will be a deck to the west of main campus located to the north of the Candler recreation fields. It would be serviced by a new road connecting Old Briarcliff Road and Peavine Creek Drive. This road will allow daily traffic to exit Clifton Road at Old Briarcliff and access the campus and the Peavine Decks without having to pass through the congested CDC to CSX Bridge stretch of Clifton. The third parking facility is at the current site of Facilities Management next to the CSX line. This property is very important for the future growth of the campus. It is envisioned as a below-grade deck built into the side of the hill with a new series of quadrangles created on top. These buildings have a variety of potential uses ranging from housing, medical research, general academic, or residential colleges, to student services. These quadrangles will extend the walking environment, and help to reestablish the core campus. Other incremental decks in the core campus include an expansion of the Fishburne Deck and a small deck behind the Boisfeuillet Jones Center.