Completed Projects

Broida Expressway

After more than a decade planning, bidding and construction delays, the Broida Bikeway finally opened on Wednesday, February 1st, 2006.

The Broida Bicycle Path is an east-west connecting link for the campus. It connects the bike path by Chemistry that stretches around the northern perimeter of the main campus with the path near Davidson Library, thereby increasing access to the east side of campus. Funds for construction were raised through AS BIKES initiated student wide lock in fee.

Measuring 900 feet long, 12 feet wide and featuring a 165-foot-long roundabout, the $525,000 new addition to campus runs from Webb Hall to the Materials Research Laboratory.

Now students can legally ride their bikes down the Broida corridor to their classes without worrying about receiving tickets. Also, the area around the bikepath has been beautified making the ride more enjoyable.

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Goleta Beach Bikeway

Before the redesign, Goleta Beach bike path was a worn-out, narrow and dangerous bikepath with blind curves and potential for pedestrian-bicycle conflict. On the downhill ride, the pump station fence jutting into the line of sight created a blind spot at the sharp curve on the bikepath and made it a hazardous place for both bicyclists and pedestrians entering or leaving campus.

Goleta Beach bikepath improvement project realigned the path around the fence and increased visibility to bikers descending the path and provided a safer paved area on the side for pedestrians reducing the chance of collisions with bicyclists.  The change improved a total of 888 linear feet of the bike path between the pump station and the East Gate entrance. The project also widened the path to 14 feet and relocated 225 linear feet of the path a few feet from its current location adjacent to the pump station to remove the “blind spot.”One year after the redesign, the path was slurry-coated to reduce the wear and tear and prolong the life of the bike path. Now commuters to UCSB can safely and comfortably ride to campus without having to stress about the blind curve or pedestrians on the path.