How To Build A Parking Lot

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When students get back to school after going home for the weekend, their biggest worry is not being able to find a parking spot. Especially when they have only a few minutes to get to their first class and the parking lot is to capacity. Nobody wants to start out their week with a parking ticket, so they spend a lot of their time circling the parking lot just hoping that they will either catch someone backing out or they find a parking spot that is hidden between all of the cars that are spaciously parked on the gravel. The majority of the students that live on campus are West Residents. These students are only allowed to park on the west side of campus, or they will get a parking ticket. There are four dorms on this side of campus and they share a small parking lot by Madison Hall, the few angled parking spaces along University Avenue, and one parking lot between Commons and Ouachita Hall. The parking lot that is behind Commons is half gravel and does not have white parking space lines drawn on it. Students park unnecessarily far away from each other and take up more room than needed. They get several parking tickets because they end up having to park in the commuter or faculty parking spaces. If the …show more content…

If they were to build this garage, parking tickets would no longer be a major issue. It would not be almost impossible to find a parking spot anymore because of the multiple levels of the parking garage. There would be an appropriate amount of parking spots for the students in West Residence Halls. However, it could be quite expensive to build a parking garage of this magnitude. The University would not only have to pay to build a garage, but it would also have to pay a construction company to build it. Constructing this parking garage would also take a lot of time to

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