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Aside from having a lot of grass areas on campus, parking spaces have become scarce. As more and more departments open at UMBC, the number of students attending school at UMBC grows more and more. Considering over half of the undergraduate student population at UMBC is comprised of commuter students, the parking spaces to students’ ratio at UMBC is extremely disproportionate. The shortage of parking lots and spaces is getting worse every semester.
To correct this problem, the findings of this report best recommend a series of modifications to the parking system around campus to include an ease way for the students to find the parking spots around campus. This new parking way includes more signs for the new parking spots each student with a car would come to the campus and start looking for the signs that tells you how many parking spots are free and can be used. The new parking signs would be modified electronically to tell students if the parking lot is packed or not.
Overview of the Project
Background
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), is growing and dynamically adding more and more students every year. Student demographics for the campus this year approximately describes 9,000 undergraduate students and 3,000 graduate students (approximately 12,000 students total) of which 64% are commuter students and 36% are
The City of Los Angeles is notorious for its space congestion: in most neighborhoods, simply finding an open parking spot is considered a luxury. To make matters worse, California vehicle code section 22500 (f) exacerbates Los Angeles congestion as it precludes vehicles from extending over any portion of a sidewalk or onto a street. This paper will draw attention to the fact that 22500 requires amendment, doing so would both reduce space congestion and ease vehicle accessibility.
Since the vast majority of students that attend college drives a car, Miami Dade College had to find a place where students could park their car without taking the risk of being towed or ticketed. So the college administration allied at a first instance with Miami-Dade County to let the students park at the 117th avenue which is right behind the college buildings. The real problem came when the Miami-Dade County didn’t let them park there anymore. Consequently, MDC had to find another place to let them park, so they moved the parking site to the International Mall, which is about 3 miles from the campus buildings. Finally they got an agreement with IKEA to use the upper parking of the
Students attending classes at the PACI building must either park on Waverley Street or on the side streets on Waverley Hill. The Waverley Street parking is frequently filled by hospital workers who use it as day parking instead of the paid parkade closer to the hospital, which effectively makes it unavailable to our students or to the other institutions close to Waverley Park. The distance to this parkade from our building makes it impractical for our students to use.
There are now far more students enrolled than there are parking spaces. The common defense I hear to this is that it gets better when students begin to drop out. However, I don’t think we should be relying on students to drop out. I think the school should be prepared. Every morning I usually have to circle around for at least 15 minutes before it even see open parking spaces. Some people even drive to the mall and have to wait for the bus to bring them to school. This is ridiculous considering that students pay for their parking passes, which should grant them the reasonable right to park on
In the 1800’s, before the establishment of factories, laborers worked from home and received a “piece-rate wage” based on the output and quality of products produced. Cottage industries included spinning, weaving, lacing, and branding, which provided job opportunities and a source of income for women. This “piece-rate wage” system disappeared during the Industrial Revolution, when steam-powered factories became laborers’ workplace. As women started to get older, the gender wage gap widened; by the age of 30, women factory workers only earned approximately one-third of a man’s wage. Women organized into labor unions, which utilized strikes to negotiate labor rights and fair pay. The strikes were not always successful, but started to catch the
With the diversity of students that attend the University, there are a variety of challenges and advantages that are unique to each sector. Parking on the Boise State University Campus can be a difficult and frustrating but with a little bit of help and information, you can maneuver your way anywhere.
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
Another option could be that the college tear what is already built now and expand the campus. Making the campus much broader would space out the students parking tendencies and break up the clusters of jam packed areas in the parking lots. Without a doubt this would be extremely costly and would probably force Butler to raise the price of tuition to get this money. Raised tuition could possibly turn students off from going to Butler, but that is a price I am willing to pay for better parking
The problem with using the ATA bus system to solve the campus parking problem is the location of the bus stops, the time waiting for the bus, and the cost of the bus if the stop is off campus. The free stops on campus are only located within campus. Off-campus students will still have to find a way to get to campus to get on the bus. If a student wants to get on an ATA bus outside of campus they will be charged a fee. Another problem is students do not want to wait on the buses to get to their stop or if the miss a stop they have no way to get to
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
I hope to provide possible ways to improve the services provided to aid the parking issues that are found on the Florida International University. The issue of parking at Florida International University is the lack of being able to find parking at most given times. There are a lot of times where I have arrived at Florida International University and have spent over 20 minutes driving in circles trying to find a parking spot. And I am not the only one. Martina Bretous writes in one of her article posts. “It always starts out the same way: a race to the elevator entrance at the sight of anyone entering the garage followed by a head popping out of a lowered car window yelling ‘Are you leaving? (Bretous)’” I would use this excerpt to
The Masque of the Red Death was published in May of 1842 by Edgar Allen Poe. It’s clearly an allegorical story, one that can be more narrowly defined as a parable. A parable is defined by Encyclopedia Britannica as a fable-like story which uses humans instead of animals, and draws an analogy “between a particular instance of human behavior…and human behaviour at large”. It’s specifically designed to deliver a moral message or lesson, and the one in Masque is that no one can escape death, no matter what artifices are placed to obstruct it. This is interesting, but the real magnificence of the tale is in the literary genre in which Poe tells it, which is the Grotesque.
Students are forced to park in other places on campus and some choose to disregard the signs posted for reserved parking. This is a bit risky because vehicles parking in violation of university regulations may be towed and impounded. For example, a freshman living in the valleys would get an F parking permit. The only places they can legally park with this are up the hill by the dorms, by the rec. center, and on high levels of a parking structure by the Bernhard Center, which is a popular place for students to eat out at, or buy things at the school store. Each parking lot is restricted to parking for a specific type of permit. Only vehicles displaying the same type of permit may park in that lot. During fall and winter semesters, residence hall lots with the designations A, C, F, K, and Z are restricted 24 hours a day for vehicles displaying the same type of permit. Many students choose to ignore these letters and just park there anyway, taking the risk of being ticketed or possibly toed. Campus police walks around especially at night and tickets every car parked illegally or calls in for a toe truck to help out. Seven different parking lots that may seem convenient when students are looking for a spot are restricted to employee parking 24 hours per day, leaving many students frustrated,
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.
There have been many reasons why on-campus parking has become difficult in recent years. Increased student enrollment at Kent State University has posed many problems. The parking lots cannot facilitate the growing need for vehicle parking. Campus officials have undertaken construction projects to curb the parking problem, but these renovations have closed lots in the near term. Also, the increased enrollment of