{"id":42731,"date":"2016-12-20T11:07:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=42731"},"modified":"2016-12-20T11:09:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:09:52","slug":"january-will-bring-changes-for-bus-stops-cars-and-pedestrians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/12\/january-will-bring-changes-for-bus-stops-cars-and-pedestrians\/","title":{"rendered":"January will bring changes for bus stops, cars and pedestrians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Brock community returns to campus on Jan. 3 after the holidays, they\u2019ll find a new arrangement of bus stops, vehicle routes and walkways in front of the Schmon Tower.<\/p>\n<p>During the holiday break, major work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/09\/22-million-goodman-school-of-business-expansion-will-benefit-students-and-the-community\/\">Goodman School of Business<\/a> expansion project means construction fences will be extended out on to Isaac Brock Boulevard, preventing traffic from reaching the front of the Tower.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Brock Boulevard will be closed indefinitely to all traffic except transit buses and construction vehicles, and some bus stops will be relocated to nearby temporary locations (see map).<\/p>\n<p>Crews will also be marking out new walkways to ensure pedestrians have safe passage around the construction zones.<\/p>\n<p>Roads and walkways will be well-signed to help people navigate the temporary system. Here\u2019s how it will work:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transit buses<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buses will turn through a new temporary vehicle lane that runs in front of the statue of Sir Isaac Brock.<\/li>\n<li>Some buses will use a bus stop in that loop near the statue, while others use bus stops located further along Isaac Brock Boulevard.<\/li>\n<li>Paratransit vehicles will use Lot H for pick-up and drop-off access to Schmon Tower, Thistle and Mackenzie Chown complexes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Parking meters being removed <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When the changes are instituted, there will no longer be any metered parking on Isaac Brock Boulevard during the life of the construction period.<\/li>\n<li>Alternatives for paid parking are in Lot D or on Flora Egerter Way (formerly Meter Road) and University Road West.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other vehicles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During construction, only transit buses and construction vehicles will be able to enter Isaac Brock Boulevard. Cars as well as school and other non-transit buses will banned from that loop.<\/li>\n<li>Vehicles can drop off passengers in lay-bys located on the east and south sides of the Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex, and also on the south side of Welch Hall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Brock community returns to campus on Jan. 3 after the holiday break, they\u2019ll find a new arrangement of bus stops, vehicle routes and walkways in front of the Schmon Tower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,4052,3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42731"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42744,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42731\/revisions\/42744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}