# Parking problems **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 12, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402 "2006-09-12T13:53:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402/21 "2006-09-13T01:07:57Z")
Eh, welcome to college. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402/22 "2006-09-13T01:47:34Z")
I finally got my parking fees at UC-Davis down to zero. I did this by the simple expedient of attending a church less than two blocks from the campus and parking my automobile in the church parking lot. From there, I would ride my bike, my inline skates, or my trikke clone to campus. My big shock was the difference between the parking fees at the university and the community college I attended prior. 75 cents for the junior college and five dollars at the university for the daily parking permit. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402/23 "2006-09-13T02:02:50Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] If the students who live in the dorms drive from there to college, wouldn’t that free up parking space at the dorms? Why not park there, and get the exercise that the dorm-living idiots are missing out on? [/QUOTE] Maybe the dorms have restricted parking. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402/24 "2006-09-13T02:23:08Z")
I’m a faculty member at a middling private school in a middling city in the middle of the USA and I pay \>$800 a year to park. We used to be able to park on the street until the “U” had the city put up parking meters with 2 hr limits. Yeah, it’s all about adumacation here. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402/25 "2006-09-13T02:31:45Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] I hope you fucking get into a fucking car crash and die so there’s more fucking parking (& organs) for people who need it!" [/QUOTE] Liberal arts major? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402/26 "2006-09-13T02:40:01Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] refuse to take the fucking buss! [/quote] Wouldn’t the buss be first? But to each his own. > [@](#): > > I hope you fucking get into a fucking car crash and die so there’s more fucking parking (& organs) for people who need it!" I was going to guess MD student who hoped to be a transplant surgeon. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402/27 "2006-09-13T04:00:31Z")
[QUOTE=Jurph] Next time you’re forced to miss class, take down a list of all the license plate numbers parked in the class lot. That night, drive over to the dorm lots and check out the cars parked there. If you find any matches (cars that drove from the dorm to classes) leave a short but polite note on their car. Here are some suggestions: (1) I love you madly – can’t wait to see you in class this morning! Passionately Yours, Secret Admirer. (also leave dead roses and a bloody stuffed animal) (2) Walk to class for once, you lazy sphincter-licking panda spunk. (3) I cut your brakes. Have a nice day! > [@alphaboi867](#): > > [Quote=Jurph] > > …(2) Walk to class for once, you lazy sphincter-licking panda spunk…! Did I mention I live 30 minutes away by car?! [/QUOTE] [/quote] :dubious: With reading comprehension like this, may I suggest you get to school say about 3 hours early to study, or this will become a self correcting problem. Flunking out of college = no college parking problem. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402/28 "2006-09-13T18:00:55Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] You’d think that, but the dorm lots always seem to be full too! [/QUOTE] So perhaps you are incorrect in assuming that the dorm residents are the main cause of the parking problem. Or perhaps the dorms are also short on parking space, and many dorm residents are parking in the main school parking lot overnight, not driving from the dorms every morning. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402/29 "2006-09-13T18:25:53Z")
OK, so I went to college in the early 80s ( :eek: ) at a small state school in Arkansas. Parking was definitely at a premium there, too. We had different parking stickers for On- and Off-Campus students. On-campus students could park in Dorm parking lots, but nowhere else. Off-campus students could park in classroom building parking lots, the student center, library, etc., but not in dorm parking lots. They handed out parking tickets to those who parked in the wrong lot. They weren’t cheap, either. IMHO, the obvious solution (for all but the terminally obtuse and college administrators) is to give different parking passes to on and off-campus students, and don’t let people who live on campus park in the lot (except for handicapped folks, of course). I find it hard to believe that this simple and obvious solution has not occurred to your college administrators, when it was already successfully adopted at a cow college 25 freakin’ years ago. BTW, I don’t get out much. Junior colleges have dorms? ---
**Author:** ![shorin-ryu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shorin-ryu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shorin-ryu)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402/30 "2006-09-13T19:10:22Z")
I ran into the same thing when I went back to college as a commuter. I found there were some bars around campus that rented space during the day for a pretty reasonable monthly fee. It was a little farther to walk, but after the long walk back I could have a beer! Any chance of that working for you? ---
**Author:** ![AngryIrishLass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@AngryIrishLass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngryIrishLass)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402/31 "2006-09-13T19:47:47Z")
Leave your home earlier? Silly, I know, but hey, it worked for me when that darn downtown traffic made me late to work. ---
**Author:** ![MizGrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@MizGrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizGrand)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402/32 "2006-09-13T21:14:27Z")
[This just seems appropriate…](http://www.107.peugeot.co.uk/peugeot.swf) ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402/33 "2006-09-13T22:24:33Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] Okay, I calmed down a little now and thought of some possible solutions for the college; don’t give permits to students who live on-campus (or at least restrict them to the lot in front of the dorms), require students who live in town to demonstrate that they have some special need a car and can’t take a bus, get rid of all the grass islands and trees in the parking lot, or instead of an open lot build a multi-story garage (though the lot’s adjacent to the college and it would look bizarre). [/QUOTE] Why should someone living in the dorms have to demonstrate a need for a space just to make things more convenient for you? Leave earlier, or move to the dorms. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402/34 "2006-09-18T03:04:46Z")
[QUOTE=RSSchen] [This just seems appropriate…](http://www.107.peugeot.co.uk/peugeot.swf) [/QUOTE] I think that car needs power steering or something. Those wheels turn s l o w l y… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-problems/372402.md?page=1)