Dear Editor,
I am writing this letter to inform you of the parking problems on our campus. First, there are not enough parking places located on campus.
Many students have to park in the Adelphia parking garage and then proceed to walk across State of Franklin Road which is a very busy road.
If students are lucky enough to find a parking place on campus it is usually very far away from their classes and they have to wait on a shuttle bus which sometimes takes longer than just walking to class, thus making students late for classes.
Therefore, I think there should be more parking places constructed on campus closer to the educational buildings.
Also, I believe that there should be more shuttles that are faster and run more often.
Second, living on campus is bad enough as it is and not being able to find a good parking place near your building makes it even worse.
During the day, students who do not live on campus are allowed to park where ever student parking is, including places near the resident buildings, which is unfair to the residents.
Also, when students that live on campus go home for weekends, leave and come back, they carry luggage and being parked far away is a big inconvenience. Another thing about the parking spots around the dorms is that they are too narrow.
Being so close causes dings and nicks on the cars from car doors. To cure this problem, there should be resident parking only located around the dorms. Also, there should be more parking places constructed around the dorms which are wider than those currently there.
Finally, there are not enough loading and unloading parking places around the campus. Many people are only in buildings for 10 to 15 minutes and have to park far away just to be in the building for a short period of time.
Therefore, more places should be marked 20 minutes/loading and unloading.
If this complaint is viewed in the East Tennessean, maybe there will be action taken to fix some of the problems, so please take into consideration how many people these problems affect and how much it would help them if solutions were found.
Sincerely,
Nikki Gibson
Student and Resident

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