Travel by any vehicle, except emergency vehicles, has been banned on the promenade and adjacent walkways, according to a Sept. 29 memo from Vice President for Student Affairs Robert Palmer to the university's deans, directors and chairs. Planters will be erected as barriers to discourage traffic from entering the academic spine and walkways, according to Palmer.

Also, all employee service and metered parking spaces along Putnam Way has been eliminated, Parking and Transportation Director Carmella Thompson explained. Instead, new service parking spaces have been opened up along Flint and Hamilton Roads, approaching those loops, as well as in Hamilton Loop itself. State service parking, now permitted in the previously metered spaces along Putnam Way, applies only to university service vehicles and a few limited state service permits. Employee service parking tags will no longer be honored in state service parking spaces, Thompson said. Also, employee service parking, which previously had been without a time limit, will be restricted to between one and three hours. Silver employee service parking hang-tags are issued with a number 1, 2 or 3, indicating the number of hours allowed.