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| Parking changes its pass system [DB] |
Contributed by: Ryan Chen-Wing on Tuesday, August 17 2004 @ 04:54 AM CDT
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Parking services has changed the system for issuing and using passes that it started selling on Monday last week, according to the Daily Bulletin.
When students buy passes they will not be assigned to a particular lot but be able to park in any of four lots as long as there is space in the lot.
The Daily Bulletin said:
Starting this month, Lots C, N, W and X will be designated “student/visitor lots,” providing a total of 1,880 unreserved parking spaces. Students will purchase a parking decal to attach to the windshield; part-time students and visitors will use “pay and display machines” with tickets placed on the dash.
Parking Services
FALL TERM REGISTRATION
STUDENT parking for the fall term has been revised to provide students with closer parking to their classes, library and the recreational facilities. Students who purchase a term permit from Parking Services will have access to parking lots C, N, W, and X. Students may move between these four lots and are required to park in a designated parking space. If the parking lot is full then you must go to the next unreserved parking lot. Parking gates have been removed from the unreserved parking lots therefore, no card deposit or refund.
Part time students and visitors may purchase a daily pass from the Pay and Display machines located in each of these parking lots.
A valid parking decal issued by Parking Services or daily pass from the Pay and Display machine must be displayed otherwise vehicles may be ticketed and/or towed.
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| Authored by: New slogan on Tuesday, August 17 2004 @ 03:28 PM CDT |
uwstudent.org -- Your first source for old news.
This was in the bulletin at least a week ago.[ Parent ]
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| Authored by: Ouch! on Tuesday, August 17 2004 @ 06:06 PM CDT |
Permit costs have been posted:
STUDENT PERMIT PRICE
Resident $92.00
Off campus student $105.80
How much of a hike is this???[ Parent ]
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| Authored by: concerned driver on Wednesday, August 18 2004 @ 08:13 AM CDT |
| The new student parking plan is supposed to make the lives of students easier by letting them park closer to where they need to be. If we look at the distribution of where the designated parking spots are we can generalize by saying 3 are in the north campus area and 1 is in the south. The majority of classes are held closest to the south campus parking lot C. So on Monday morning I, and every other student who has bought this new parking pass, will be trying to find a parking spot in C. After not fruitlessly trying to find a spot in C (there will be no "lot full" sign in any lot), we'll be forced to drive around ring road (increasing on campus traffic) to N, W, or X which oh so conveniently are a 10 minute walk away from south campus (and the majority of classes). So between searching for a spot in C (5 minutes), driving to the other side of campus (5 minutes -- there are 1-2 traffic lights to go through), finding a spot and parking in N, W, or X (5 minutes), and walking back to south campus (10 minutes), I'm looking at a addition of 20 minutes to my day spent finding a non-reserved parking space. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this won't happen... but parking services may have an unruly mob of students beating down their door come mid-September. So what is the back-up plan? [ Parent ]
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| Authored by: anonymous on Wednesday, August 18 2004 @ 12:34 PM CDT |
Seriously. I'm glad I don't drive anymore. This system is just going to be a massive headache for the poor students who have to deal with it. (Note: Staff & faculty will not have to deal with it, as they have their own reserved lots.)
Like the other poster mentioned, students who actually want a decent (i.e. non-X lot) spot will be forced to waste tons of time searching around. No one wants to pay that much money for the privilege of parking in remote X-lot, either.
The best lot for a huge number of students, B lot, is no longer available to them. Neither is A lot. So this is supposed to be an improvement in service? Limiting our options, and then overselling the remaining lots so that nothing's ever certain and we can't ever plan our schedules?
I also love the (surely unintended) consequence of this plan -- without barriers, many thrifty students who love to park at RIM, etc, will be tempted into parking in the lots in the hope of avoiding a ticket, and parking services will have a windfall from their sorry asses. I'm sure their revenues from tickets will go through the roof next term, more than offsetting their increased enforcement costs.
I'm sure no one asked for a "flexible lot system." If they can oversell a group of 4 lots, they can oversell individual lots. (Of course it can be done with almost absolute certainty of always getting a spot, as long as you're conservative about how much you oversell.)
Instead of this four-student-lots junk, they should have kept the lot assignments identical to previous terms (students + staff, or just staff), and simply analyzed each lot individually for overselling instead of the 4 lots as a whole. They could still keep all this new junk of gateless machines, ticket displays on the dash, etc -- you could easily mark a windshield decal with the lot you've been assigned. And if you want a pass in a certain lot, then you sign up first-come, first-serve online.
But no; let's screw over the students by creating a "flexible parking" system no one wanted or asked for, when your parking location is never certain, where students are fighting with other students for the previous few spots available in "good lots," and let's also restrict them from the previous decent lots.
I hate Parking Services.[ Parent ]
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| Authored by: anger PS user on Wednesday, August 18 2004 @ 05:46 PM CDT |
I hate Parking Services. Last fall I needed a pass for the first time, and since I'm a graduate student, I spend all day every day in one of the buildings on the south end of campus, so I wanted a C lot pass. Unfortunately, thanks to screwups on the part of the car dealership, I didn't actually get my car until mid-september. In August I went to Parking Services and asked if I could buy a pass for Lot C, and provide proof of ownership and insurance as soon as I had the car. They wouldn't let me; said I couldn't have a pass without proof of ownership. EVEN THOUGH I KNEW SOMEONE WHO HAD PURCHASED A PASS WITHOUT PROVIDING THAT INFORMATION. And, in fact, later that term when I went to buy my winter term pass, the guy in front of me in line was allowed to buy a pass to the lot of his choice even though he didn't have his car yet!
So of course by the time I had the car info, all that was left was Lot X. Pretty much as far from Hagey Hall as you can get. Me=Bitter.
The worse part was? I drove by Lot C pretty much every day that term, and never once was it even anywhere close to full. Hell, I don't think I ever saw it even HALF full. So why the hell were they claiming they were sold out of passes when clearly the lot was never full?
How many lots have they now taken away from students? Just A and B? Or are there more? Because if not that many student passes were sold to Lot A and B, then there should be plenty of room in Lot C, based on my experience parking in C lot over the last year. There's almost never anyone parked in the back half of the lot (half the time there's engineers back there testing out radio cars and other crap), and there's usually still room in the front half of the lot.
Actually, that reminds me - why do A and C lot have those ridiculusly long entrance lanes? They run the whole length of the lot! Isn't that space that could be better used by, oh I don't know, PARKING SPACES???? It's not like there's ever more than 3 or 4 cars at the MOST trying to enter the lot. We don't need 100 freakin' meters of entrance.[ Parent ]
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| Authored by: Parent on Wednesday, August 18 2004 @ 08:39 PM CDT |
| No, really. They're a vicious bunch of uncaring, red-tape administrivia SOBs. And they ate my baby. [ Parent ]
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| Authored by: Abster on Tuesday, August 24 2004 @ 03:47 PM CDT |
Any word on how much it will cost to park as a user for a day?
I've heard that there will be prices by the hour, or some upper limit for a day, but I haven't heard numbers.
Anyone know?
Thanks.[ Parent ]
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- Costs Authored by: From Parking Services Website
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