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Illegal parking
citations on rise
By William Marshall
On-line Forty-Niner
It's barley the
second week of the fall semester here at Cal State Long Beach,
but the staff at Parking and Transportation services has been
working in full force to keep up with all the illegal parking
citations.
According to the
University Police log, there have been dozens of reports of
illegal parking in the past week for violating CSULB's parking
procedures.
The standard parking
fine given by the university is $25 depending on the citation.
"Most of the citations
for illegal parking on campus are for vehicles not displaying
their parking passes," said Meisha Jones, an employee
of Parking and Transportation Services.
The University
Police also issues $52 parking fines if a vehicle is parked
in a fire lane and all the way up to a $330 fine for parking
in a handicap spot.
According to Bret
Frawley, customer service supervisor for Parking and Transportation
Services, the university has roughly 13,000 student parking
spaces. With the total student population coming in at slightly
over 30,000 students, parking has consistently been a problem.
Since every student
at the university has the option of purchasing a parking pass,
there are more passes out there than the parking spaces will
allow. When what could be done to help remedy the parking
problems we are experiencing this semester, Frawley said that
there are a number of options students should plan on exercising.
"We are trying
to encourage students who live locally to walk, ride a bike
or carpool during the first three weeks of school, when parking
seems to be at its worst," Frawley said.
If it is not possible
to walk or ride a bike to school, the only other option to
save time and the headache of parking is to find a buddy and
apply for a carpool parking permit.
A carpool permit
allows parking in designated spots for a vehicle carrying
more than one passenger.
Parking has become
such a big problem that students are forced to come early
to classes in order to insure them a place to park their car.
"I really, really
hate the parking here at CSULB," said Roberto Salinas,
liberal studies major. "I've had to come more than a half-hour
early just so I can find a spot and even then, you end up
walking forever. "
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