Introduction
For many students, finding parking space on campus is an expensive nightmare. Students spend a significant amount of time trying to get a parking spot for their cars. If they are lucky to get one, they have to pay a high parking fee. This situation negates the convenience that a car is supposed to offer the student.
Students have cars so that they can travel efficiently and attend their classes on time. The difficulty in finding parking space leads to time wastage and makes the car an inconvenience. The campus administration should increase the parking options for students, reduce the current parking fees, and present alternative means of transportation to tackle the inefficiency of the current parking system.
Benefits of Proposed Solutions
By increasing the parking alternatives available to students, the campus administration will help ease the parking space shortage currently being faced. Such a step will ensure that students do not have to compete for only a few numbers of parking spaces. Another solution would be for reducing the current parking fee.
This will greatly alleviate the financial burden that students currently face. The students will be able to use the extra money for car maintenance and to cover additional educational needs. The current high rate of parking makes it hard for students to save their money for other needs.
The last solution would be for the campus to provide alternative means of transportation for students within the campus will reduce the need for private cars on campus. Such a move will ensure that the demand for parking space is reduced. With few cars on campus, it will be easy for a student to find parking space.
Objections and Counter-Objections
Some people might argue that providing additional parking space will cost the campus a significant amount of money. This is true since building a parking lot with high capacity will require significant financing from the campus. While creating additional parking space will be costly for the campus, the money will be recovered once the parking area is in operation, and students pay for the services.
Opponents of reducing the parking fee might argue that such a move will reduce the revenue that the school enjoys from parking fees. This observation is right since the campus makes money from the high parking charges imposed on students. However, the loss incurred from reducing parking fees is justifiable since the students will demonstrate better educational outcomes if their financial obligations are reduced.
An argument against the implementation of alternative transportation is that this solution will require the administration to invest a lot of money in alternative transportation means. While this is true, the campus will benefit from the additional income that will come as the students pay for the use of the alternative means of transportation. The campus will also benefit from reduced traffic in the campus vicinity.
Conclusion
The campus administration needs to provide alternative parking space and reduce parking costs to address the current problem. This paper has shown that by engaging in these actions, the administration will increase student efficiency and reduce the financial burden for students. Students will, therefore, be able to dedicate their time to the major objective of attaining a good education in the institution.