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Parking facilities to accept
applications for passes
By Seiji Ohashi
Staff
Writer
The Purdue Parking Facilities will be handling
the sale of parking passes for next year a bit differently from last
year.
The waiting list method, where students were put
on a list to receive parking passes for garage-permits, apparently did
not work well last year, said Mike Jasper, manager of parking facilities.
This year, receipts will be issued to students
after they fill out applications. Applications will be accepted starting
Tuesday and lasting through Friday.
The cost of the passes will be the same as last
year, said Jasper. C parking passes for garage lots will cost $72 and
student surface lot passes will cost $30.
Jasper said parking facilities expects to sell
roughly 250 passes for the Marstellar garage, 700 for the Wood Street
garage, 425 for the University Street garage and 530 for the Northwestern
Street garage.
The passes will be sold as a one-year deal and
there are no plans to offer one-semester passes.
"This year we sold some that were turned in (at
the end of the semester)," said Jasper.
"We have to control tightly how many (passes) are
out there," said Jasper when asked why the facilities did not plan to
offer one-semester passes.
Last year parking facilities issued 52,000 parking
tickets and estimates 48,000 issued for this year, said Jasper. At the
minimal fee of $20 per ticket, they will generate roughly $960,000 in
revenues. This revenue is almost a tenth of the cost spent to build
the Grant St. garage, which was finished in 1995. It cost approximately
$10.7 million, said Joe Mikesell, senior director of Engineering Utilities
and Construction.
Despite the high costs of building parking garages,
some students complain that parking facilities is more concerned with
generating revenue.
"They would rather make more money from tickets
instead of making more parking lots," said Stephanie Noe, sophomore
in the School of Pharmacy.
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