If My $20,000 University Gives Out One More $20 Parking Ticket, God So Help Me
Having to pay a ridiculous amount to park on a campus you attend is getting out of hand.
Your freshman year of college, you got the luxury of not having to drive to campus and play "Battle of the Parking Spots" every day with your fellow peers. Even if you do manage to find a spot in the limited amount of spaces, you have to pay an outrageous amount to park for classes you are already paying thousands of dollars to attend.
If you're like me and have a bad habit of not paying, you start to rack up parking tickets.
Now, they wouldn't be as bad if they were your normal $5 ticket you get at a meter on a downtown street, but these tickets cost you $20 a piece. A PIECE. Something needs to be done about this issue, preferably lowering the citation cost or making more room for commuters to park for class.
There are students who are easily capable of walking to class, but they still choose to drive when there is the slightest bit of wind chill or rain in the air.
Then, you have people like me that have a 15-minute drive to campus and have nowhere to park their car so they can actually attend class and end up with yet again, another $20 parking ticket. The university has places to park, the only problem is is if you don't have the required decal in your car, you're going to get a citation.
In a school of 20,000 plus students AND faculty, the university needs to open up more parking areas that don't require a decal.
Even if you try to purchase one to park on campus citation-free, they are all sold out before you can even blink. Universities are all about making money, and charge their students even more than need be. They make enough off of everything else that gets funded into the schools, give the broke college kids a break from time to time.
