The High Cost Of Free Parking

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.

As of 2013 there are about 2,500 parking spots currently available at the UCMerced parking lot; with the continued growth of students in the school, we need to be able to make sure supply meets demand with the parking spaces. UCMerced's student population is rapidly growing from 13.5 % from Fall of 2015 to 2016 (UCMerced). Due to the high demand the school needs to be able meet the necessary requirements for all these students; one of the biggest problems the school faces is that they aren’t able to meet the student’s transportation needs (The Merced Sun-Star). The lack of spaces causes students and staff to waste time looking for parking causing them to waste time. I plan on making a design on a mobile app to be able to solve this problem.

When students are trying to get to class on time or even slightly early and the parking lot is full, this becomes increasingly more difficult to find a spot. To discover and verify the problems with Crounse’s parking lot, we gathered data from not only the parking lot itself, but the student and faculty body as well. From here we analyzed the data collected and developed viable solutions to the issues at Crounse Hall’s parking area.

As students we pay for many fees and parking should not be one of them. Here at Oregon State University many students and professors ride their bikes around campus, but there are also many students who drive their cars around campus. Some students have the privilege to have their car here, but for some students it is a necessity because they may live far from campus or because it is their ride back home. For parking passes we have to pay a fee that varies from $95 to $495 for an annual permit. This is the fee we have to pay just to park on campus and not have to park of campus. With how high our tuition is you would expect something like parking would be included. It should not even be included in our tuition, I believe

Your travel budget shouldn’t be consumed by parking fees. When you’re flying from SeaTac Airport, you probably don’t want to spend a large portion of your available funds simply to park your car in a safe place. That is why the airport parking facility is not a viable option for many SeaTac flyers. In fact, the parking rates at the airport are scheduled for an increase in April 2017, which means you’ll pay more to park there than ever.

One of the solutions that was used in Carolina. “They have already employed virtually all campus parking management practices that are out there. With parking constraints in every direction on main campus, any changes that can be made to on-campus parking will produce relatively minor effects. The park and ride lots, however, are a different situation. Location, size, accessibility, cost, and frequency of transit service can have a significant effect on how popular a P&R lot is. These factors can be much more easily controlled and manipulated to improve the attractiveness of the park and ride option relative to parking on campus.”(cdr.lib.unc.edu) This well cost more money in the long

I am writing you today to request an improvement to the parking on the side of James Madison Drive in Vienna. The road side parking along this street provides critical, but challenging parking for high school students. The area is very uneven, rough and has big dips and drop offs. This is causing students to park parallel creating a lack of space for more cars. There are efficient ways to fix this problem. The area on the side of James Madison Drive needs to be paved or smoothed with gravel.

Thus, with the increasing number of automobile ownerships, parking has become a confusing as well as conflicting subject for a number of people. One reason for this is, “Few cities bothered to conduct a site-specific analysis to establish how much parking was sufficient but relied instead on guidelines published by the Institute of Transportation Engineers” (Broaddus, 2007). As a result, over the years, this has led to a huge oversupply of parking,that essentially promoted increased vehicle use, along with traffic congestion and harmful air pollution, as argued by Don Shoup, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles who teaches on planning and economics. He suggests, with so much free parking motorist cruised around searching for free or low priced parking, contributing to the congestion and environmental hazards. It is the opinion of this author, that the issue revolves around the lack of properly managing the aggregate demand for parking in relation with prices and the real GDP. If the

This website is about some common-sense solution to parking problem on campus. This solution is to the issue that will benefit all parties, as well as the university, and fix problems that can easily be resolved. The first step is paint line in every parking lot. If the university doesn’t want to spend a lot of money on this, there are plenty of students that would take minimum wage to spend time out on the first or the last day to break the paint lines. The second step is count every spot. After that, make the parking passes for on-campus students specific to their respective dorms and make parking passes accessible to everyone. The third step is to raise the parking pass little bit. If the parking pass price is raised, passes would be allotted

An apartment family and his/her friends share one parking area with neighboring apartment families and their guests. Depending on the owner, parking spaces belong to certain apartment complexes or a free for all. An annoying neighbor will use more than two parking spaces. On top of that, this person does so in secret. The aggressive nature creates a ripple effect as you must take someone else's parking space, that person takes another

A lot of experts suggest more express pricing of parking facilities, and for a multiply of reasons many cities, campuses and commercial buildings are growing anywhere and as soon as parking is priced. Numerous existing trends raise the rationalization for pricing parking, as well as increased urbanization and land costs, increased worry about vehicle traffic external costs (congestion, accidents, pollution, sprawl), and enhanced pricing technologies. However, unpriced parking is well recognized, so parking pricing accomplishment requires overcoming various political, institutional and technical obstacles. Care is essential to be in touch the benefits and address potential problems. Parking pricing is just one of some parking administration

The purpose of this proposal is to document the existing campus parking supply and demand for parking spaces and to provide a recommendation for the number of parking spaces needed for students with the main objectives of improving location of parking so that it supports the university, safety of vehicle access, and the safety of the campus community, and improving parking management, reviewing current strategies and making improvements to management and methods of operations.

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