£300 a year to park at work. Would you pay it?

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Read this and weep. Welcome to The New World.

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/sustainability/travel/faqs....

The prices are in the "New permit price charges and CarParkingMax calculations"

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So I guess the answer's yes, then?

Not what I expected.

They've already won the battle, it seems!

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Ian Lancs said:

dxg said:

Read this and weep. Welcome to The New World.

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/sustainability/travel/faqs....

The prices are in the "New permit price charges and CarParkingMax calculations"

I love the bit where it says students are encouraged not to bring their cars - def. wasn't the case when I was there....

Half the students have a better car than I do!

It's also worth pointing out that there are no public transport connections to this place. There's a ropey mid-sized bus service. The station's about 3 miles away. There are quite a few bike racks around the place, but they're jam-packed as it is.

Btw, I've decided to start cycling in. So I guess they have won. I will be bringing my bike into my office, however, to mark my protest.

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Rawwr said:

Website said:

To support the University-wide Travel Plan which is to reduce single occupancy vehicles on to and across campus

?

The campus is huge and your can be timetabled to finish one lecture at, say, 10am, with the other starting at 10am three quarters of a mile away!

Colleagues have been know to jump in their cars to get from one end of campus to the other, because "there's no other way to do it." Me? I finish the first lecture 15 minutes early and walk...

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Otispunkmeyer said:

Yeah the new multi-story is quite large and from floor 2 upwards pretty empty even during peak times so theres way more spaces than cars at the moment. The top floor is almost always completely empty. Whats more they have some spaces ear-marked for electric vehicles.......electric vehicles no one has (except one guy who minces about in a lboro branded Gee-Whiz which is a ridiculous attempt at a vehicle)

Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Saturday 14th May 17:41

To be fair, there is often an electric Smart parked in those spaces. As an ex-Smart owner I can verify that one of those facts makes it a horrendous attempt at being a car. And the other makes it electric!


(It was at least a Roadster, but that didn't stop it just being a repackaging of the for2's horrible subassemblies.)

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ChairsWithHairs said:

The background to this is some local residents who feel strongly about the 'university parking issue'. There are very few of them, most are retired and have nothing else to do - it's their hobby. They want the university to make anti-car noises due to environmental, traffic and local parking issues. I've witnessed a neighbour of a relation watch a student park on a public street, and then dash out to catch them and give them five sheets of A4 on why they should not be parking there (no other cars were parked on the street at the time, but he claimed verbally that university parking made it impossible for residents to navigate out of their drives).

Most residents recognise that 1) there's no issue really, live and let live 2) parking a taxed car on a public road is legal 3) Loughborough university is the largest employer and source of income for the town, and is the single reason Loughborough is noteworthy in any form.

Note, for some reason the individuals think that charging staff for on-university parking will help their 'parking problem' in the streets near the university!

I love to know more about this. Can you PM me if you don't want to discuss in public. I'm guessing you're talking about the "forest side" residents.

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mcdjl said:

dxg said:

I love to know more about this. Can you PM me if you don't want to discuss in public. I'm guessing you're talking about the "forest side" residents.

Forest side tend to moan up at the back of the library but its also the Ashley drive people and thos down near the back of towers- these have moaned about the lack of car parking due to the new design dept going up despite more parking spaces being created before the work started. The ones along the Ashby road also moan about cars left there. I merely dislike those left outside the uni on the junctions from the main road.

Gaspode said:

Yebbut to be fair, how many students have lectures outside a relatively small area? When I was there nearly all (1977 - 1980) my lectures were in Eggington, with a couple in that old building near the (then brand new) Student Union building.

Edit to correct my rubbish memory - Eggington was the flats, lectures were in Brockington building. The old place was Hazlerigg.

Edited by Gaspode on Monday 16th May 20:31

It depends. I had lectures with a 10min gap a mile apart. There are still the main lecture halls in the James France.Brockington/EHB (middle of campus near eggington) building but the engineering buildings are almost a mile away with the largest lecture halls (motorway end) and then a lot of the smaller seminar/tutorial rooms are near towers towards the town.
Feeling old much? I am......

Have you seen this:
http://www.charnwood.gov.uk/files/documents/loughb...

Note the plan for *another* multi storey down by the towers. I wonder how it will be paid for...

(And, yes, I can see the logical fallacy sitting behind this if the intent of the permit scheme is as the policy claims and not as some posters have suggested above).