BIG TRAM ON CAMPUS

摘要

When students, faculty, and staff moved into seven brand new buildings clustered around a quad in February 1931, the San Diego State Teachers College stood alone on this mesa east of downtown San Diego. Flash forward 75 years and several name changes—the school officially became San Diego State University in the early 1970s—and the 33,000-student institution is landlocked, surrounded by private development on three sides and a hill on the other. With 90% of SDSU students commuting to campus by car, the need for parking complicated the school's space crunch— as would the additional 12,000 students expected to commute to campus over the next two decades.