VT Parking Services April 05, 2006 06:23:42 PM
There is something seriously wrong with our school's parking policy. How can they take away even more parking spaces and continue issuing parking tickets like candy!? Currently, there are now 2 construction projects taking place on campus. They're putting in a new sewage pipe on one side of campus right threw a parking lot thus displacing cars, and now their beginning construction of a new building which happens to be on, yup, you guessed it, another parking lot! Heres a few facts, parking services issues over 15,000 comuter passes each year, there are only around 10,000 spaces on the whole of campus. Over 1.2 million dollars of revenew is collected by the school each semester in parking tickets alone! As a comuter myself, I can't tell you how many times I couldnt find a single parking space on campus. Others have given up and just parked on the grass next to a parking space, or next to a line thats not a real parking space, and what happened to them? They got ticketed, why? Because they legitimately purchased a parking pass yet there were no places to park. Yeah, makes a lot of sense doesnt it!? Ive also heard stories of people who tried to fight those tickets with no avail, what were they told, ''should have taken the bus''. Are you serious!? Then they wouldnt have bought a parking pass in the first place! and on top of that, why would they sell them a parking pass if their just going to tell them to take the bus? MESSED UP! So with all the constuction going on, litterally hundereds of spaces are being lost. Parking will continue to get worse. Already today, in our comuter lot, a piece of it was newly designated Faculty/Staff to ammend for their loss in another lot, and I kid you not, there were 4 cars in a row ticketed, and at least 10 other cars with a C-Pass instead of a F/S-Pass, so they will all get ticketed too on the next round. GO VT Parking Services! You guys RULE!
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