A Walking Street is a street along which both passenger auto traffic and pedestrians can move. It is similar to a typical city street except that it favors the pedestrian with broad tree-lined sidewalks, street furniture, and attractive paving textures. Vehicles must observe strict speed limitations and pedestrian crosswalks may be humped or have speed bumps or buttons across the driving surface to calm traffic and to establish the primacy of pedestrians. The master plan proposes that the following streets be upgraded to Walking Streets. It is possible that later phases would permit some Walking Streets to become extensions of the concourse system.
Parks are the largest open spaces found on campus and the least formal in character.
The 1966 master plan recognized the importance of protecting the greenspace surrounding the Trading House Branch of Johnson Creek. The shape of the park reflects the natural and uneven path of the channel of Trading House Branch of Johnson Creek, including those portions where the watercourse is underground. This area varies in character from a manicured setting near West Border Street, to the improved and landscaped area to the east of Cooper Street, to an informal linear park containing trees, bushes and grasses in a nearly natural state. The park is interrupted by crossings at West Second Street, Cooper Street, Mitchell Street, South West Street, South Pecan Street and a proposed extension of Doug Russell Road. The master plan envisions an opportunity do more than to protect the area.