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This seems like a really convenient way for schools to pass the buck on to their students, while administrative bureaucrats continue to rake salaries in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
This is ludicrous that you think administrative salaries are huge factors in the cost of education.
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> being incredibly flat Europe is full of two-wheeled vehicles that manage to solve this problem.
But we are talking about what it takes to get lazy Americans to bike. I am well aware of how popular biking is in Copenhagen even though they have comparatively terrible weather. Davis truly has an unusual confluence of factors that make biking more appealing to Americans.
Like adversaries who attempt to outrun a radio, "outsmarting" law enforcement who have your license-plate number is a generally poor strategy. Likewise, putting the police-department's SIM in your phone has some pretty clear downsides.
I don't believe campus police actually has any legal power. It also isn't the police department's SIM card, Barnacle owns it - of course it's still considered theft.
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Depends on where you go. My college had a legitimate police department with duly authorized officers that could arrest, carry guns, etc.
This is common for public universities, for the obvious reason: they're already a branch of the state, so it makes sense for security to officially be state police.
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I get where you're coming from and I agree that people should pay what they owe, but just to split hairs... Paying for parking isn't a "fair" way to distribute it. What is meant to happen is that paying for it funds the creation of more parking (ground level parks are converted to multistories etc). So paying is a necessary evil to create and maintain enough of something to go around. With a monopoly supplier, like h…
20% fewer drivers benefits everyone, so that's not a bad policy.
> Obviously, some students thought that fee was ridiculous – just like paying for parking at a university where you’re already paying a hefty tuition fee I hate parking fees as much as the next person, and totally appreciate the creativity of the people who defeated this device. However, how should we handle distributing a limited number of parking spaces when there are more people who want to park than available spa…
I live near a Big Ten university that's on an urban campus, so there's a lot of demand for parking in the area. It's a residential college, but with a lot of employees and grad students. So parking is at a premium.
Faculty / staff parking is priced by convenience. The best spots cost the most.
There's a relatively cheap lot at the edge of campus that's served by a shuttle bus. The city bus service is free for employees and students. And the town is relatively bike friendly. I ride my bike to work. One friend of mine keeps a bike on the back of his car and uses it for "last mile" to avoid paying for the expensive parking.
The places where I went to college and graduate school, parking and housing were both cheaper, but land was also cheaper.
I spent a decade in the parking technology space. (Co-founder PayByPhone -- don't hate me, I genuinely tried to make things more civilized and convenient, I swear!). Anyways, I miss hearing about hilarious and genius hacks and escalations like this. The brilliance deployed to work around parking regulations is amazing. Not condoning, but here's a (naive?) though experiment if the Barnacle shows up in use again... Par…
Using a car cover daily will do a lot more damage to your paint than a parking ticket is worth, very quickly.
Like adversaries who attempt to outrun a radio, "outsmarting" law enforcement who have your license-plate number is a generally poor strategy. Likewise, putting the police-department's SIM in your phone has some pretty clear downsides.
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The alternative, tire boots, are equally asinine and more likely to damage the car. These seem fractionally better up to the point where they are hacked. Unessarily connected devices are a liability beyond measure, and it floors me that nobody seems to notice.
This is a stupid question, but something I’ve always wondered about is how tow trucks disengage the clutch and/or the parking brake... am I to understand that they simply don’t? So if I park my manual transmission car in reverse and with the parking brake on, they’re just going to literally drag my car to their lot or destroy my gearbox? How is this not a bigger issue?
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The problem is not paying for the parking I use. That is an easy problem to solve, as long as the price is "reasonable". The problem I have with parking authorities is fraud. When the meter employee gives me a ticket for a different meter, or when the parking ticket fine is $200 instead of say $30, or when the restrictions are absurd/vague ("You can park here for 2 hours m-f except holidays except 9-11 except in gree…
Hear hear! My favorite idiotic parking ticket story: back in grad school (at Stanford, so valley people watch out!), I got a $75 parking ticket once at 3am, in a lot for which my car had a valid permit (in student housing)... because I hadn't changed the DMV registration sticker. Mind you, my registration was renewed, I just hadn't put the new sticker on the plate. Also, it was pouring with rain that night. So they s…