Parking Essay

start with the parking lot. There is a very limited availability of parking. It is a forever battle to find that perfect spot in the lot, you’re not only battling with commuters who come in and out all day attending

* Nobel Prize–winning economist Ronald Coase noted,“The cost of doing anything consists of the receipts that could have been obtained if that particular decision had not been taken.” For example, the opportunity set for this Friday night includes the movies, a concert, staying home and studying, staying home and watching television, inviting friends over, and so forth. The opportunity cost of taking job A included the forgone salary of $102,000 plus the $5,000 of intangibles from job B. Opportunity

6. Kaspar Hauser In May of 1928, a teenage boy was found wandering the streets of Nuremberg, Germany, clutching a handwritten note addressed to a captain of a German cavalry regiment. The note claimed that the boy, Kaspar, had been adopted as an infant by an anonymous person and raised in near-total isolation somewhere near the Bavarian border; the note instructed the captain to take him in or hang him. The boy was jailed as a vagrant, and appeared to only know a few scattered Hungarian words and

sister, her two other girl best friend and myself. She made plans for her birthday to be downtown as more of a “girls night out” fancy dinner celebration. She asked me to drive us downtown to the mall, so after grabbing a parking ticket we drove around and around the cold, concrete parking garage to about the 3rd or 4th level. As I got out of the car I noticed that there were only a few cars around us in the dim lit garage, it was around 6pm so it was already dark and freezing cold outside. All us girls

structure, gateway towers, is an office building with ten floors including a lower level and a penthouse. The twelve story office building has a total of 11.400 square feet in surface area. The parking for this structure is compensated by a parking garage. The basement garage has 14 spaces, surface parking has 24 spaces, and future garage has 300 spaces. There is two elevators adjacent to each other and another elevator located by the fire command center. Apart from the elevators, there is two sets

Francisco knows that available parking is a scarcity. Although well known for its great climate, amazing landmarks, unique attractions and diverse culture, the shortage of parking space is a force to reckon with. The parking demand in San Francisco is so intense that often residents and commuters are routinely frustrated with trying to seize a parking space whether for work, shopping or storing their vehicle. Furthermore, this just downplays how important a parking spot can be for a considerable

use this project to help alleviate the current parking problem at Winthrop University. Jack Allen, from Campus Police, and Walter Hardin, Associate Vice President for Facilities Management, have shown interest in my project. BACKGROUND Winthrop University is a small public school with an enrollment of 5,065 undergraduate students (Fall 2002). Although there is a wonderful parking system

of potential users. Because, in urban locations parking is expensive, public transportation is available, and people

me back to, “Great job tonight,” he says, handing me crisp bills from the register as my payment, “Come on back anytime!” It’s now three-thirty, and the crowd has dispersed. I step out into the cold and head for my car, parked conveniently in the parking lot of the abandoned hotel next door. I never park close because you can never trust the assessment of others when they say, “I’m okay to drive, I haven’t drank THAT much.” I really didn’t drink much this night, but after making sure my car was undamaged

Officer on duty should also keep a log of all the activity that occurs during their shift such as DARs (Daily Activity Reports), Incident Reports, etc... The areas of coverage pertaining to the Security Officer on duty include building 11, 45, and the parking garage located at the South-West side of 1st