Ride a Bike!
It's just as frustrating when you live on campus and walk past tons of empty spots in your dorm parking lot and then get to class and have to listen to commuters whine about how there is no parking or they had to walk all the way from the dorms? Really? At least you had the option (even though our passes cost the same).
By the way, at UTA my staff parking pass costs $150, tickets are $50. And spots on the main campus are very hard to come by for anyone.
Students pay $40 per year for parking. Dirt cheap.
At Southern Miss they pay $135/yr. Also they are building a $16 million parking deck for 1200 cars. I expect their parking fee to go up after this. I highly doubt our Tech students are willing to pay over $100 for parking.
Here you go, this company has 4 of this model for sale:
Each at $39,500;
Capital outlay ~$165,000
Annual costs for 9 months of operation (don't need during summer)
4 Drivers - $90,000 totalFuel - $20,000 total
- $14/hr (http://www.payscale.com/research/US/...l/Hourly_Rate)
- 8 wks (minus quarter/holiday breaks)
Maintenance - $80,000 total
- ~$5,000 per bus http://www.americanschoolbuscouncil....uel-calculator
Annual cost of operation ~ $200,000
- Estimated 3 buses will be getting regular maintenance each year ($10,000) and the 4th will be getting major overhaul ($50,000)
Use annual advertising on the buses to bring it down some and the rest add a small fee to off-campus:Worse case scenario we get no annual advertising that would work out to about $7 a student per quarter or $21 per year!
- 85% of undergrads live off-campus http://www.latech.edu/ir/assets/cds2009_2010.pdf)
- 12,000 Enrollment in '09(I know enrollment considers Grad school and my percentage is based on undergrad only, this is quick and dirty)
- ~10,000 students
- 3 quarters
- 30,000 fee collections per year
Now that's not considering any revenue made from visiting fans, setup lots where they have to park to get bus service and charge $5 (if they don't pay to tailgate).
Is parking so bad that we need overflow parking at Joe Aillet? I'm assuming that at peak time of the day we only utilize 80-85% of our main campus lots (excluding JAS parking). For the rest of the day, I say it's 65-70% or less.
Wouldn't it be a benefit to have a parking garage for the football games?
Tech does not have parking problems. We have lazy students who are spoiled.
Ya got parkin' problems? I feel bad for you, son.
I got 99 problems, but parkin' aint one.
Last edited by ITdrummer; 09-10-2010 at 01:13 PM.
Wow now that's bringing the laziness to a whole new level...
I agree parking is not bad at Tech; I was just showing what we could do if/when parking gets bad.
Parking garages are horrible horrible ideas; they are eyesores, often dangerous, require large capital expense and can only serve one purpose.
I don't necessarily think it takes laziness to a whole new level. Eliminate parking spots on campus to provide more green space and raise the price of parking. Then start the bus routes. I visited a friend at LSU once and took the bus from his apartment to campus. It was pretty nice.