I understand that this is a large campus and, if not for the staggeringly steep parking fees, the campus would be overrun with cars. I also understand that folks try to bend the rules. Hell, I’ve bent the rules myself from time to time.
However, this time I was not bending the rules. This time, I filled out my multi-use parking pass in pencil on accident. I know I’m supposed to use pen. I wasn’t thinking.
I was resigned to paying the $200 citation for using pencil instead of pen. Figured I have too much history with you to defend my innocence this time. And I was content with you confiscating my multi-use permit.
But canceling the permit for the carpool I participate in is unbelievable.
You and your mini-despot assfuckery can chew on an anthrax rotten cow.
Yeah, TAPS is run by assholes. I’m lucky I haven’t had a run-in with them about my parking at work with no pass, but they are apparently too lazy to check the VMTH lot after noon. I would definitely fight the carpool pass thing. That’s punishing other people and that’s not right.
My carpool buddies and I are plotting our revenge. It involves a lot of pig shit and rumen liquor.
I should have suspected they would be evil. First, because they’re TAPS, and second because they charge the same per person price for a carpool of 3 as for a carpool of 8 or 13 or 40. Price gouging, botulism infected, parasite crotched butt munchers.
Sounds like you’ve been drinking the kool-aid as well. If it is a large, small, or medium campus, it is up to the planners to provide an adequate amount of parking for the demand. Or is your tuition too low for that?
Treating parking as a public good paid equally by all students is one way to deal with it. Another way is to require those who actually use it to pay for it. Personally, I’m in favor of the latter, usually.
You could argue that the dining halls should produce enough food to feed all the students, too. But it’s totally reasonable for them to charge for it, and only feed those who pay.
If it makes you feel any better, University of Colorado Hospital ticketed one of our ambulances that was dropping off a patient for chemo the other day.
A better dining hall analogy to parking would be if a 30,000 student school had one McDonald’s sized building as a cafeteria, required reservations, and charged $40 for a hamburger and said that “We can’t feed everyone since we are such a large campus”.
I have no problem with reasonable user fees for parking and certainly dining as the students who use them should bear the responsibility, but the OP had a $200 fine for a trivial infraction. Hell, here I can park in a handicapped spot for a $100.
Does the campus have any kind of judicial system to contest the ticket that isn’t a total kangaroo court?
I would research it and see what options were there, and look up the applicable regulations and what kind of notice you were given. You may end up paying the money, but I would at least make them earn it. But then again I am an asshole*.
Parking is only one way that the university has vastly outgrown its infrastructure. Hell, they are having problems keeping education programs running.
Sadly, there really is no recourse on the ticket. Their paperwork makes it pretty clear that the only way they’ll consider rescinding a ticket is if they themselves filled it out incorrectly. They don’t care that you made a mistake or misunderstood.
Plus, like I said, I have bad blood with them. Because of that, I suspected they wouldn’t take the truth this time and I tried lying. It was completely out of character for me and it was stupid and I regret it because it made everything worse.
At least they’re refunding my carpool mates the remainder of the purchase price. At this point, a whopping $40. Plus, they’ll let my carpool mates still participate in the carpool program later. And the carpool situation was getting weird anyway because our schedules kept shifting.
