Nightmarish parking a fixture on UA campus
The Traveler Editorial Board
Issue date: 9/15/08 Section: Opinion
We're encouraged by the plan to build the Garland Avenue Garage, which is listed on planning.uark.edu as one of many construction projects to be completed by 2010. A parking garage on the north side of campus would potentially provide ample parking spaces for the students living in those five residence halls.
In the meantime, though, before a new parking garage is built, TPD officials should either have the UA ticketing process make sense - a $40 ticket for someone with no permit and a $50 ticket for someone with just the wrong permit hardly seems sensible - or lay off the tickets a little bit.
Give students time to drag their luggage into their rooms while their car waits in front of the residence hall. Wait a few minutes before ticketing students who are parked in metered spaces and scrounging for change in their bedrooms.
Students are allowed to bring their vehicles on campus, and we think most aren't trying to break the law when they park. Regulations have to be enforced somehow, but TPD officials also should help UA students out a little bit.
In the meantime, though, before a new parking garage is built, TPD officials should either have the UA ticketing process make sense - a $40 ticket for someone with no permit and a $50 ticket for someone with just the wrong permit hardly seems sensible - or lay off the tickets a little bit.
Give students time to drag their luggage into their rooms while their car waits in front of the residence hall. Wait a few minutes before ticketing students who are parked in metered spaces and scrounging for change in their bedrooms.
Students are allowed to bring their vehicles on campus, and we think most aren't trying to break the law when they park. Regulations have to be enforced somehow, but TPD officials also should help UA students out a little bit.
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Baker Morgan
posted 9/14/08 @ 10:42 PM CST
amen to this article. thank you for writing this.
unearthed
posted 9/15/08 @ 6:47 AM CST
Garland Avenue Parking: $400+ (and talk is that it could be $600) for a spot. Seems the UA generates enough revenue from tickets to not charge so much. (Continued…)
Clint Cates
posted 9/15/08 @ 1:43 PM CST
We have a solution to this parking problem for the university! We are currently working with Los Angeles Community College District - LACCD (the largest college district in the US with over 200,000 students) to install the first College Campus U-ParkIT system in the US. (Continued…)
nate
posted 9/16/08 @ 3:43 PM CST
if they used parking tickets money to build more parking spaces, what are they going to do in the future? as all students have parking space? the revenue will go down considerably, then there is limited used for parking and transportation department at UA anymore, isn't it? hahahaa
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