Is that a Spot over there?! “Com’on, com’on! There’s got to be a spot somewhere!” I have always heard about the crises amongst college parking, but never experienced it until now… and I wish I hadn’t. Looking for a parking spot around UNR’s campus is comparable to a Where’s Waldo? book. Being a college student, I felt that this was one of the last things I should be worried about. However, I still find myself in a repetitive cycle of frustration and vexation looking for parking daily. As I struggle with this ongoing problem, I started to ponder if there were more students who found parking around campus as difficult as I did. Being around the UNR campus most of the day, I started to overhear many students, and also some of my friends, complaining
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Some might argue that this plan may be subject to faulty online errors. However, the online website is already well consolidated. Despite there might being errors, I would imagine that the university would much rather have easy online fixes, than having a multi million dollar parking garage built, thus having to deal with major fixes. In addition, some students may contest that they experience little to none parking difficulties on campus. Out of about 22,000 students, there are students that do not possess a car and some that do. It is possible that some of these students could havenever heard of or experienced the parking situation around campus. These are the variables that have to come into consideration when debating about putting this plan into use. By acknowledging these possible suggestions made to prevent this issue from escalating any further, the new parking plan has a better chance of resolving the concernment as seen by the students and staff …show more content…
According to the online article, “An answer to UNR parking woes in sight,” Ryan Klekas, an MBA graduate of UNR, created a way to help college students suffering from extreme parking difficulties (Nevada Sagebrush). Klekas created an APP by the name of “Instally,” and is the CEO and Co founder of this APP. This APP allows students to connect with local people that own housing and parking spaces. The students then get in contact with the owner of the parking space and rents out their parking space for a certain fee. When asked why he created the APP his response was,“This at least gives you options to where if you want a space and you 're running late you can pre-book it. I just think it 's really terrible that you can be handicapped by parking to the point where it stresses you out or to the point where it makes [people] reluctant to even come and enjoy the university," (Nevada Sagebrush). As one can see, the parking problem at this University is at a point where students have gone out of their way to not only help themselves, but others as well. This being said, there needs to be changes to the parking crises us students are currently
Some might argue that this plan may be subject to faulty online errors. However, the online website is already well consolidated. Despite there might being errors, I would imagine that the university would much rather have easy online fixes, than having a multi million dollar parking garage built, thus having to deal with major fixes. In addition, some students may contest that they experience little to none parking difficulties on campus. Out of about 22,000 students, there are students that do not possess a car and some that do. It is possible that some of these students could havenever heard of or experienced the parking situation around campus. These are the variables that have to come into consideration when debating about putting this plan into use. By acknowledging these possible suggestions made to prevent this issue from escalating any further, the new parking plan has a better chance of resolving the concernment as seen by the students and staff …show more content…
According to the online article, “An answer to UNR parking woes in sight,” Ryan Klekas, an MBA graduate of UNR, created a way to help college students suffering from extreme parking difficulties (Nevada Sagebrush). Klekas created an APP by the name of “Instally,” and is the CEO and Co founder of this APP. This APP allows students to connect with local people that own housing and parking spaces. The students then get in contact with the owner of the parking space and rents out their parking space for a certain fee. When asked why he created the APP his response was,“This at least gives you options to where if you want a space and you 're running late you can pre-book it. I just think it 's really terrible that you can be handicapped by parking to the point where it stresses you out or to the point where it makes [people] reluctant to even come and enjoy the university," (Nevada Sagebrush). As one can see, the parking problem at this University is at a point where students have gone out of their way to not only help themselves, but others as well. This being said, there needs to be changes to the parking crises us students are currently