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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 24. October 2, 1969

parking

parking

Sir,—It's 11.30 a.m. on Wednesday morning and I've just spent 30 fruitless minutes driving around looking for a parking space on or near (within ¼ mile) of the campus—Sir, not a proverbial sausage of space to be had—excepting of course for the academic stall car park where there are no less than 66 clear spaces—which one is refused permission to park in: short of

(1) illegally parking on public roads
(2) walking ½ mile to the campus
(3) disregarding the traffic wardens instructions and parking in staff spaces.

It seems impossible to obtain adequate room to park: It's fine if you are able to arrive at 8 a.m., but for many (part-timers outer-suburbs residents. etc.) it is not practical. With the advent of finals and the consequent practices of time saving—bringing parents' cars instead of using the slower public transport, etc., I can see this situation rapidly deteriorating and think that it's high time the administration did something about facing up to the situation in a practical manner such as re-allocating staff parking areas to students until finals are over. Too often, do we hear excuses of "campus growing pains" and "what's wrong with their legs?" from the administration.

Today the fact that most students have cars, or access to them does not seem to have got through to the administration. Let's have some realistic action.

A. D. Mcewan