Letters to the Editor
Pitts off mark with editorial
Dear Editor,
Chris Pitts, get a clue and quit being a college student homer. Your columns are so completely one-sided that it is not even funny.
"I have to concede that I haven’t seen such a blatant act against certain group of people before."
What are you talking about? The city did not change the parking downtown to spite college students. They did it because local businesses downtown were suffering because customers had no where to park. The two-hour parking limit creates new parking spots every 120 minutes. College students, including myself, have the tendency to park their car and leave it there for five, six, or even seven hours at a time. If you have all the college students parked on those three or four blocks downtown, where do the downtown customers park? They don’t. They are going to keep on driving and head to Chile’s, Little Tokyo or one of the other restaurants across town.
"Two hour only parking is a bit unrealistic."
Get a life. It is only unrealistic because it is not what you want. It makes your life a tad bit harder and you start whining like a little kid. If you don’t get your way you go spouting off in this column, making all college students come across as self-centered, immature "I’m better than you" a**holes. Grow up son. Having to walk three or four blocks to get to class is not going to kill you. Park at Centennial and use what God gave you.
"The city needs a parking deck. End of story."
News flash. There’s one right downtown. You’re just too cheap to use it. Quit complaining about not having a parking spot when there’s about 45 sitting right there in front of your eyes. Put the $$$ in the slot and shut up. You probably spend more money on beer and Twinkies than you would using the parking deck.
"The city will do more and more to force their idea of a perfect antebellum town on those just trying to go to school."
I’m sorry, but the city is not trying to force any kind of idea on anyone. They are just trying to maintain this wonderful place that is Milledgeville.
Why did they change the housing ordinance? So they could enforce ideas such as a clean yard, street parking and noise.
Why did they change the parking rules downtown? So they could actually accomidate everyone who uses the area.
You seem to be stuck on the idea that the city has tried to ignore the fact that college students are here. Well, it seems to me that you have forgotten that there are other people in Milledgeville besides college students. Hard-working, tax-paying, car-driving citizens want to be able to utilize the benefits of our downtown area as well.
Sincerely,
Matt Powell
Walking may be better option
Dear editor,
I am currently a junior at GCSU and, for lack of other housing arrangements, am living at The Village at West Campus. At first, I felt like The Village would be a decent place to live because the school seemed to be trying to make it better. In the area of parking, however, I feel like I am being punished for living here. I technically live on campus, so I am not allowed to get a commuter parking pass, and I am apparently not on campus enough to get an upperclassmen on campus parking pass (they are only for those on central campus).
The shuttle is fine and all, but I have tennis class at centennial center. All the spaces I can park in are on the other side of campus, and I would have to wait at bobcat for the shuttle and then wait at SAGA for the campus shuttle to take me to Centennial, then do the same thing after class when drenched with sweat. I just received a $30 ticket for parking in Centennial’s parking lot and have no idea where the school wishes me to park. One of the best options seems to be to walk from The Village.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Creasy
Junior
Engineering
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Oct 5 2007. Filed under Letters to the Editor, Opinion.
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