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Show PARKING ››continued from page 23 NEW IN PARKING upset about parking have a right to be. WSU’s parking isn’t close to perfect either. Weber State has 1,794 W lot stalls, yet it sells an unlimited amount of permits. In the 2016–17 school year, they sold more than twice as Price Increases many permits as there are stalls. So while W A lot permit: $119 lots continue to be W & RW lot permit: $77 100 percent full from Day permit: $3 9-11:30 a.m., the A lots Reserved Stall permit: $508 always seem to have empty stalls. Parking Lot Meters Brian Dorsey is a professor of geograInstead of using coins to phy whose focus is on pay for parking lot meters transportation planning. on campus there is a “PassTake the training online and Dorsey encourages port mobile parking” app utilizing the public tranTake your the training on your eWeber portal now & learn how in which users can pay and complete Safe@Weber Violence sit, but he admits public extend time on their mobile transit can be difficult you Education can help prevent violence in our Weber community! phone or tablet similar to Prevention requirement today! for non-traditional stucity parking in Salt Lake City. dents. “I see an issue for nonDirections for usage is found traditional students who on meters. are working and have children. Transit is difCollegiate Plate ficult for their lifestyle. Proposal ButGo for to the your average stueWeber Portal dent, there’s probably a (Effective Fall 2017) better chance that they A2, A6, A9, W8 will have four could use transit,” said spaces designated for cars Search Safe@Weber Dorsey. with an appropriate permit Fifty-six percent of AND a WSU collegiate plate. WSU’s student popuThe stalls will function on a Click the Safe@Weber lation is on composed of first-come, first-serve basis. non-trad students. icon and take the training Donald Shoup is a distinguished research professor at UCLA and specializes in parking. In his research, titled, All Graphics by J. MICHAELA FUNTANILLA| The Signpost “The Politics and Economics of Parking on ideas like these that need to be Campus,” he describes a Goldi- discussed. locks Paradox to parking where “Every good idea comes with the “performance-based price” money,” Bybee said. “But I think Go to your eWeber Portal 1 for parking is varied by time and it’s always important to get your location. While varying parking ideas out there because you prices for specific times would never know because maybe 2 Search Safe@Weber be ideal, it’s not quite viable. (the parking committee’s) been But perhaps mobile parking trying to think about that too.” 3 Click on the Safe@Weber icon meters are something to conBybee thinks people don’t sider, like those of Binghamton understand how helpful Parking and take the training University (NY). Such meters can Services is. be hung on your rear-view mir“They’re very open to know ror, allowing students to park what the students want and anywhere on campus. what they can do better to imAnother option is to limit the prove,” she said. amount of W permits sold, so students don’t have unrealistic expectations about getting a Comment on this story at parking spot. It’s questions and signpost.mywebermedia.com Creating healthy Help prevent violence in relationships together. our WSU community! |
