18.Apr.2010 Parking Protest @ Turlington Plaza - Shaan
Tired of getting bullshit ass parking tickets on UF’s campus? The student population is on your side.
Taken directly from the Facebook event:
On Monday, April 19, 2010 at 12:50 pm in the Turlington Plaza area, there will be a protest about parking at UF!
The University of Florida sells 2-3 times as many decals as they have parking spots! Students have to hunt and hope that they “get lucky” to find a parking spot on campus. If this is the case, where is all the money from decal sales going? It’s not going toward building more parking garages but rather towards renovating things such as the Reitz Union and paying out salaries because of their budget cuts!
UF gives a ridiculous amount of tickets for outrageous reasons and sometimes because they know students would rather pay the money than wait 3 + months on appealing the ticket. So, instead of 60 days to appeal a ticket, it was cut back to 30 days, and now 15 days. They are trying to cut back the time students get hoping they forget and owe money anyway!
We’re fighting the cost of decals, the amount of tickets given, where the money goes and more. We want UF to end the practice of issuing tickets as a business to raise money. The City of Gainesville, towing companies, and Parking Services must stop profiting off of poor students! Come and attend this protest. It will be sure to make the front page of The Alligator and possibly other papers.
There’s nothing worse than trying to find parking on campus at 3am and being stuck in your car for 30 minutes until someone decides to get a midnight snack at Steak and Shake. Realistically, I don’t expect much change to happen, but good luck to them.
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