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Post by 00hmh on Jun 12, 2017 8:53:06 GMT -6
They don't think it appropriate to have parking at the center of campus. Why the hell not??? There are quite of few of us who'll be displaced, which means the other lots will somehow have to accomodate all the extra traffic. All in the name of being "green" and having a walking/biking mall. It almost feels like employees are not important. (Can't tell you how many people have said, "you have to pay for parking where you work?" The idea seems to be wall off campus and make it an island. Maybe fine for students living in a dorm. For the employees and many thousand students who don't live on campus, for visitors coming to campus, it is going to be a mess. Central parking makes much more sense in a lot of cases. The alternative of having everyone shlepping in from parking on the edge of campus can't be that good. It's bad for everyone, who now already have to pay for some convenience, but people who come and go for glasses or have to leave campus for outside obligations and visitors to campus it's not just a convenience. Time in the middle of your schedule in the day is valuable. And Emens is not just employees, I have no idea what they will do for visitors. They are lost already coming to campus, but often can find Emens parking. You need convenience for those folks. You have speakers in to classes, what do you do? Parents or prospective students want to visit and tour campus? How do we host conferences in academic buildings? |
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Post by DickHunsaker on Jun 12, 2017 9:16:01 GMT -6
Last I heard they were thinking of replacing the Emens parking garage with a new parking structure between the AT building and the Atrium. Currently it's a paved lot with metered parking. Hoping that will still happen.
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Post by DickHunsaker on Jun 12, 2017 9:18:47 GMT -6
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Post by 00hmh on Jun 12, 2017 10:35:57 GMT -6
Last I heard they were thinking of replacing the Emens parking garage with a new parking structure between the AT building and the Atrium. Currently it's a paved lot with metered parking. Hoping that will still happen. Access to that area is not very good. Better where Emens is... |
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Post by gocardsgo on Jun 12, 2017 15:19:56 GMT -6
In the campus master plan it says the preferred plan is tearing down and rebuilding a parking garage on the same footprint where the Emens garage already sits.
This is also part of the "mid-term" plan so we're talking a couple years away at least.
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Post by Lurkin McGurkin on Jun 12, 2017 20:28:59 GMT -6
Administration has said that they don't want parking in the central part of campus. The footprint of the U isn't huge, so I don't know how much it will impact employees/students, but visitors will hate it.
Emens will see declining ticket sales. R2 (the lot between Bell and LaFollette will become green space.
It's ridiculous. No doubt because some environmentalists want to ban vehicles from campus.
Of course, everyone in the yellow brick building will have parking. Just not the minions.
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Post by cardfan on Jun 12, 2017 20:50:41 GMT -6
Agree that attendance at campus events, especially at Emens, will decline. The ease and convenience of people coming from off campus to attend events will continue to be reduced until they can't afford to bring national acts anymore because ticket sales won't support it. The community just won't find it worth the hassle of trying to get on campus and find parking as convenient as the emens garage. And employees will feel marginalized. But we'll have green spaces....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2017 21:04:44 GMT -6
I heard the graduate Art students were putting together an artificial gum tree to be used as a means of keeping this important tradition alive and to culturally enhance the newly constructed area with the essence of Art. True?
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