The Voice

Parking has long been a controversial issue across the GCSU campus for both students and faculty. In response to this “problem,” the recently formed Parking and Transportation Committee has developed a new proposal to be implemented fall semester 2006. While this new plan is not perfect, it is an attempt to satisfy the needs of all parties involved. While parking around campus may, at times, be frustrating, it is important to remember that more parking options are available on our campus than at most other institutions.

It seems odd to us that students who are willing to walk three blocks from their residence halls are unwilling to walk the same distance from the Clark Street parking lot after they move off campus. While we would like to see improvements to the parking facilities on Clark Street, such as the addition of a crosswalk, we feel that these lots and others like them around campus can more than adequately accommodate students needs.

The college and the surrounding community claim to take pride in our beautiful, historic campus while at the same time complaining about the lack of parking. There is nothing beautiful or historic about striped asphalt. It is our opinion that two options exist to remedy the problem. The first is to pave the entire campus to provide convenient parking for everyone and, in the process, destroy the most appealing aspects of our campus. The second is to provide adequate parking a reasonable distance from campus. But maybe you’d rather live and work on an asphalt slab. God forbid you have to walk a few blocks to class. That would throw off your whole schedule, which probably includes a “strenuous” afternoon workout at the depot.

Since most of you probably spend about 20 minutes circling the downtown and campus area looking for a parking space, your desire for a space next to the door of A&S is obviously not based on time restraints. If time was your biggest concern, you could park at the Clark Street lot and take the shuttle or walk for four whole minutes. So the issue here is that you simply don’t want to walk. If a four minute walk is out of the question for you, get over it. Then go see a doctor.

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Mar 31 2006. Filed under Our Voice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry