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[fiona]

This may be everyone's fantasy.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/tweed/professor-abandons-his-eternal-search-for-a-parking-space/28959?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

The Fiona

[2clueless]

I particularly loved this sentence:

It has traditionally oversold parking passes by 65 percent, meaning that they function more as hunting licenses than as parking permits.

I did my graduate work at an institution where parking passes functioned as hunting licenses, complete with hunters stalking prey who looked like they might vacating a spot.

[sea_and_ski]

I particularly loved this sentence:

It has traditionally oversold parking passes by 65 percent, meaning that they function more as hunting licenses than as parking permits.

I did my graduate work at an institution where parking passes functioned as hunting licenses, complete with hunters stalking prey who looked like they might vacating a spot.

At my former institution, the hunting license cost >$1600/year for all faculty and staff, even in the outlying lots.  Despite this price the lots were usually filled by 10AM.

[chaosbydesign]

This sounds familiar. I have to be on campus by 8am to get a parking space (I have a permit) at CurrentU. At PreviousU, there were approximately 400 parking spaces for the entire building and a waiting list for a permit that was so long I think a new hire would probably almost be reaching retirement age before getting hold of one.

[prytania3]

I know I'm going to feel like this this year. We are having serious parking issues.

[southerntransplant]

We don't tend to oversell the lots by much. I've never not been able to find a place to park.

But Swelterville isn't Halifax, either.

As for the article, I like this bit at the end:

Good luck, Mr. Middlemiss, and may your retirement be productive and full of open parking.

In the meantime, readers who are experts in Canadian defense policy and who are on the job market should direct their CVs to:

[chaosbydesign]

My campus is letting people  without permits park for the first few weeks of the semester. It is a) a disaster and b) making me wonder why I pay for a permit for these weeks. Yesterday I had to park in the pay per hour garage because the rest were full. They should kick out the people without permits when that happens.

[treehugger1]

I particularly loved this sentence:

It has traditionally oversold parking passes by 65 percent, meaning that they function more as hunting licenses than as parking permits.

I did my graduate work at an institution where parking passes functioned as hunting licenses, complete with hunters stalking prey who looked like they might vacating a spot.

It was just like this at my undergrad University. Unfortunately, one semester I had to drive off campus for a few hours mid-day, then come back and, of course, hunt for that rarety of rareties, a legitimate, non-ticketable parking space.

One day, I had an exam in my late afternoon on-campus class. I couldn't find a space and knew I couldn't afford a ticket, so I came up with the following strategy: I drove to the campus police (conviently close to my exam building), parked my car in their driveway, explained the situation and asked them to watch my car for me. To my shock, they actually agreed!

[infogoon]

I roll my bicycle right into the building where I work. Suckers. Heh.

[macaroon]

I'm laughing because one of the things we tell job candidates, only half in jest, as a way to sell our institution is "This city has plenty of parking!"  (It's a densely populated urban area, so the assumption would be otherwise). Rarely, it gets a blank stare, but most of the time, it's <GASP!>  "Oh thank heavens!"  or "That's wonderful!!!"

Oversold by 65%?  That's shameful. 

[llanfair]

As for the article, I like this bit at the end:

Good luck, Mr. Middlemiss, and may your retirement be productive and full of open parking.

In the meantime, readers who are experts in Canadian defense policy and who are on the job market should direct their CVs to:

I bet my militarist colleagues are dashing off applications right now. 

That guy must've been just waiting for the opportunity to say that.  After 31 years, he's certainly eligible for the golden handshake, after all.

[bcohlan1]

There's an episode of "Third Rock from the Sun" in which Dick quits his job at the college because they won't give him the parking space he wants.  Of course he ends up working at Burger King.

[scampster]

My campus is letting people  without permits park for the first few weeks of the semester. It is a) a disaster and b) making me wonder why I pay for a permit for these weeks. Yesterday I had to park in the pay per hour garage because the rest were full. They should kick out the people without permits when that happens.

Er, how do you expect them to "kick out" people without permits? Have their cars towed?

[pathogen]

My grad uni had a terrible parking situation. Spaces on campus were rare and major $$$. There were park and ride lots with buses, but many of them were such that if you didn't arrive by 8am, you wouldn't even get a space in the park and ride lot. If you did, when you got to the bus it was full and you had to wait for the next one. There was a major university hospital attached to campus. I felt sorriest for the people who worked there all the time and could not get any parking.

[ex_mo]

I have private, free, covered parking here at my tiny SLAC.