Are you a car-centric university, a bikeable university, or a walkable one? They all have pros/cons. BYU has said they want to be a walkable campus. OK, I'm fine with that, there's good reasons for that ... but just saying it doesn't make it so. You have to make it easy for people to walk, which means making it easy for them to GET to campus so they can THEN walk around. Because nobody is walking as their commute.

What BYU should do if they want to be a walkable campus (as they have stated) is embrace/encourage transit by having convenient stops for the UVX, which is like a gift from the city to the university. In fact, they should route the UVX through campus drive all the way around with multiple stops. UTA would probably love it as it would make UVX even more popular, and it would solve so many problems. Students and faculty in many parts of Provo could then just ride that straight to the door of many buildings.

A second option, but similar, would be to have a couple large parking lots strategically located off campus, and then run a BYU shuttle around campus drive. This is what utah state does, and it works great. I would use the stadium parking, which is mostly empty during the week. I pushed back on a parking garage on 9th east, but that could work if it wasn't just pavement right there in the middle of a residential area ... if it was something like an underground parking garage (expensive) with grass on top, it would be great. Then shuttle people around campus drive on mini buses every 15 minutes.

A third option is embrace biking/scooter culture and have safe routes to and through BYU on them. Right now the city's ebikes/escooters are forced to quit the second they hit campus, which includes campus drive. So of course nobody uses them. But BYU could cut a deal with bird for students and faculty, and let many use that as a way to get to and around campus. Universities like Univ. of Colorado do this really well.

Many options, but do SOMETHING. What BYU has chosen to do is eliminate parking WITHOUT putting forward a strong alternative for how people can get to campus. And that's created a mess.