[El Scorcho]

how about we remove all parking on campus except or faculty and commuters....all parking at north campus.

What about staff?

[phoenix]

I've been saying this for 20 years now -- assign parking spaces based on sticker. You get one place to park, and your car had better be there or you're towed. Commuters, same deal -- you get a space, and that is where you park. If someone takes your space, you call security and they get towed. Faculty and staff get spaces based on where they work/teach. Same deal - you are asigned a space. Dorm students would be assigned a space by their dorm.

This would eliminate just about all the problems I ever ran into with parking on campus, and would eliminate students driving from their dorms to class. THEN you'd just have to complain about WHERE your space was.

[rueful]

I've been saying this for 20 years now -- assign parking spaces based on sticker. You get one place to park, and your car had better be there or you're towed. Commuters, same deal -- you get a space, and that is where you park. If someone takes your space, you call security and they get towed. Faculty and staff get spaces based on where they work/teach. Same deal - you are asigned a space. Dorm students would be assigned a space by their dorm.

This would eliminate just about all the problems I ever ran into with parking on campus, and would eliminate students driving from their dorms to class. THEN you'd just have to complain about WHERE your space was.

This idea works great in highschools for one reason. Highschoolers all have the same schedule. Lets say Joe Tool just moved off campus and his space is space 1, right in Demoss, but Joe tool only has class from 7:40-10:30 every day, so then from 10:30 on that space is empty for no reason, its a good space, right by Demoss. Where as Jane Ditz has space 4,560 (which there would need to be at least that many spaces in order to accomodate all of the commuters to have their own space, so were saying either gigantic parking garge or paving the rest of candlers mtn.) and space 4560 is up near camp hydaway, she has classes from 10:50 - 3:30 every day, and the rest of the time her space is open, but she has to get here at 9 to get down to demoss in time for classes.

So, the next logical response for someone in support of this would be "well Jane Ditz and Joe Tool could just have the same space, since they need it at different times. However, this forces Joe to leave campus the second his class gets out to allow Jane time to park and get to class. What happens if Joe needs to utilize the Library which he is paying for as part of his student fees? Also, with as big of a mess as most offices are on this campus, can you imagine the mess of a place it would be that has to work out who would share a space with whom? And, with all the schedule rearranging that happens in the first week, whos to say when they would be able to have the spaces locked up and assigned.

So in theory yes, great idea, assign everyone a space. In practice, it looks like alot of black pavement and bottles of tylenol

[Cider Jim]

Parking Enforcement - Towing starts 8/31
LU Police Department
Surveys have shown there are over 1000 empty parking spaces daily on campus.

Wow, there's a stat I didn't know.

[ATrain]

Parking Enforcement - Towing starts 8/31
LU Police Department
Surveys have shown there are over 1000 empty parking spaces daily on campus.

Wow, there's a stat I didn't know.

I'm wondering if those are actual numbers or if the person who used to do attendance at our football and bball games a few years ago is now counting the parking spaces.

[rueful]

first off, the parking summarys they have on the splash page are a joke. Itll say "600 spots were open this afternoon on main campus" but you read through it and a majority of those are for carpoolers or faculty.

main reason of this post: overheard two bright student workers at the bookstore talking of their solution for the parking problem "get rid of that ugly building across the street there (they were referencing the hancock building), there would be plenty of room for that in demoss or north somewhere, then get rid of that old chapel we dont use anymore and the mansion, you could put like 2000 spots right there. They shouldnt have added onto the religion hall, they need to tear that down and put a parking garage there as well"

so though I may be one of the dumber posters on the board, at least im not one of the dumber students on campus

[JK37]

I may be one of the dumber posters on the board

Nominated for post of the year!

(Relax, man - just havin fun with ya!)

[rueful]

I may be one of the dumber posters on the board

Nominated for post of the year!

(Relax, man - just havin fun with ya!)

hence why I said it, i could care less it was a joke

[LUconn]

did you tell them that they're retarded? Ignoring the obvious fact that destroying those building would be disastrous, I really think the campus would look really beautiful if it were covered in black top. Heck let's get rid of Doc's memorial and pave it over.

[Cider Jim]

I'm wondering if those are actual numbers or if the person who used to do attendance at our football and bball games a few years ago is now counting the parking spaces.

Come on, ATrain, show KK some love!