College Parking Spaces

Due to the number of people here at TSU, we are ill equipped to handle to large number of cars that students are bringing. The system in place currently consists of the following; the main parking lots that surround the residential halls, once those fill up the other students go to a dedicated parking lot about a five-minute walk from the halls. However, this year the student load is too great, so a new overflow lot has been designated on the other side of the campus. In my personal experience, I have had to go to that lot before, and even that one is almost over capacity. One night while riding with a friend, we were just leaving and there was two or three other cars just sitting there waiting for us to get out of the mediocre spot instead of looking around for another spot, as we left the parking lot, it became clear why they did that, there were no other spots available. When we got back it took about an hour to find a parking spot as we had to check all the other lots for a spot, and ended up parking on the opposite side of campus to our dorms. Other students I asked stated that during the week, there’s very little chance of getting a parking spot. Only Friday morning through Sunday afternoon are there any reasonable amount of parking spots in any of the parking

1. If they'd do something about the parking on campus, I wouldn't be late so often

The University sells guaranteed reserved parking, but the service is inadequate and poorly enforced. Although, I purchased a 24-Hour reserved spot (#6524A) in lot five; late students will often wrongly park in my parking place. Sadly, the PTTS have nothing to prevent my reserved spot form being taken by late students. Also, when I call a parking attendant to have the vehicle towed, it takes too long and I still have nowhere to park. Also, to avoid parking shortages, Texas A&M should stop selling more parking tags than available spaces.

As a college student, I feel as if in each dorm room should consist of a bathroom with a shower, sink, and toilet. Each dorm should have their own bathroom because it would be more sanitary than sharing a bathroom with 10 or more people every day. Schools should extend dorm rooms by taking out the public bathrooms that way they can expand the rooms to fit the bathrooms. It would also be more convenient to students because they wouldn't have to rush to be the first one in the shower in the morning it would be right there in the room. You also won't have to worry about dirty showers or hair stuck in the drains. To get this put into place students could start a petition for this to happen and if we have enough hopefully the school will take it into consideration. This would be the best solution because students would feel more comfortable using a bathroom in their room it could make

Many students at Kansas State University have a problem with having to hunt for a parking spot every time they arrive on campus. Buying a permit every year does not guarantee you a parking spot; it is more of a hunting permit. It does not seem to be fair that the university keeps taking away parking spots. Some of these spots were taken away in order to better the university with a new water treatment plant, but as the number of enrolled students is on the rise, the number of open parking spots continues to exponentially fall. Another large complaint among KSU students is the price of parking. We are proposing Kansas State builds a new parking garage to take care of the parking problems.

Waking up on time, finding your classroom, as well as showing, are just some of the stressful parts of going to Cleveland State as a commuter, let alone finding a place to park. The necessity of finding a parking spot on campus close to the correct buildings is a must if you plan on commuting. On top of paying for tuition, students are asked to pay another fee to park on campus. One would think that if the parking pass was bought, a spot would be automatically a given fact, but for some they are hard to find. The question is should every student that buys a parking pass be granted a parking spot in the designated area of their choice? I think that if you spend the money to park you should have a spot no matter what time you come on campus.

For starters, after traveling with a group of my friends and waiting in the dreaded traffic that started near campus, we were thankfully able to pull up right behind the stadium for designated, close parking. As we

New students entering Western Michigan University are allowed to have a car on campus. With every new freshmen class entering each year, parking poses a problem. WMU is already limited in its parking on campus and since freshmen are allowed to have cars, the students are faced with the dilemma of having nowhere to park or parking quite far from their destination. There are parking problems all over the campus, creating backups in residence

Though students are not the only ones suffering from the parking issue. According to the FIUSM Editorial, “FIU’s status as a commuter school should mean the University has enough parking spaces available to fulfill the need of its community. But, it doesn’t. The University’s parking problem is not just a student problem, it’s affects the community as a whole (FIUSM Editorial).” To get this point across I plan to use a solution argument to be able to properly state the solutions to the parking problem Florida International University has provided, and show the flaws that the services have within them and ways that we could better than to actually make an impact on the commuting students parking experience. I decided on this purpose because many people already know Florida International University has a parking issue, as well as many universities around the country, but to be able to offer them alternatives to be able to help the problem seems to be the best way to go rather than just informing them of what they already know

Furthermore, many students do not want to buy a parking permit because the Texas State Bobcat shuttle is already part of the student’s tuition, so why not use it as a form of

More than half of the parking spaces that is close to the academic buildings is reserved for the Professors, however, the number of students in attendance surpasses the faculty. Students have had difficulty and anguish over this decision and think this system is no good. Two of the bad things are, for example, students have to park in the streets which is dangerous or interrupting classes already in progress when they arrive late. Sometimes students are on campus on time, but they have to spend ten to fifteen minutes looking for a suitable parking spot. Andy Gayle is a mechanical engineering student and argue passionately about the parking and think he is paying too much money to Camden County College to have this type of trouble. Therefore, he believes if you are not paying tuition you should not have special parking and that all parking should be on a first come first serve basis. Mr. Gayle concludes that the only designated parking should be for handicapped Professors and students. Even though, his statement is controversial I do agree to an

Most people try to let the elderly or disabled get their upfront spot. My mother is 100% disabled from a military incident and needs the front parking space to reduce stress and tension on her bad foot and back. Handicap spots are usually open for her which is good. On the flipside however there are those who think they can park there to get a quick item from Starbucks and get out without getting a fine. This has also happened before, some people just park wherever they please, breaking laws and leaving before they get in trouble being what we call a scofflaw.

Background: We are in need of a space where we are able to work hard while relaxing. Student centers are students go to area for social, cultural, and educational pursuits. From private areas to meet up with class mates and friends to a nice café area for a nice breakfast, lunch or dinner between classes. This is not the only thing that the student centers are good for. Numerous schools around the world has these types of places for students to unwind and focus. It also gives students a place to do all they need to do without leaving campus, losing parking spots and spending time going out doing things when they have the resources there already. The problem that is being seeing around campus is that students are stuck and crammed in the library, outside in the hot or cold weather and more on campus job opportunities for those that seek it.

Spotlight would be an Android and iOS mobile phone app that students can go into to report and check on the availability of parking on campus. The home page would be a menu where you can select the parking lot you want to check. They would go by alphabetical order of the names of the parking lots (Brindle, Campus Safety, Gloucester, Hawthorne, Kennedy, Solar, Standish, Stoneridge, and Overflow). Once the parking lot is selected, there will be a sliding bar ranging from green to red that shows how many spots are available in that lot (green is a lot and red is not a lot).

There are currently only a handful of reserved spaces on campus, and the ground has yet to be broken for the construction of the parking deck. In fact, Winthrop University does not even have all the funds needed to build this parking deck. When I approached Jack Allen, of Campus Police, with my idea of reserved parking spaces, he told me that he thought it was a good idea. Walter Hardin, when given the same idea, seemed to think that the reserved parking system would not realistically work out but was open to the proposal.