Driving may seem easy —
but where to park the car?
By HARRY ESTEVE
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In Italy, all roads lead to Rome — In Eugene,
they lead to the University
Relatively uncongested streets make driving
to school deceptively easy Once here, however,
all those nasty things said about cars begin to ring
true
Anyone who has attempted to navigate 13th
Avenue by car during the hourly, 10-minute-long
class-change melee can attest to this Drivers
have been known to fall asleep waiting for the end
of the steady stream of students pouring off
campus to the bookstore and Old Taylors for
blue-books or beer
Parking on or near campus is another major
headache, unless you happen to be a member of
the pre-dawn set All the good spots invariably are
taken before the sun rises — only the two-hour
zones located at the outermost tips of campus are
left
Parking permits, sold by the University for
designated areas around campus, can be
purchased on a yearly, monthly or per-term basis
For students, the cost of a school year permit is
$18 Faculty and staff permits are $36
The rates for summer session are $6 for
students, $12 for faculty
Carpools also are provided for if the members
purchase a carpool permit The permits, which
are transferable to any car in the pool, go for $18
per school year
Carpools are defined by the University as
"groups of three or more persons who ride to the
campus area together, two of whom are
associated with the University in some manner
(employee, student, etc ).”
The permits can be obtained after submitting
an application to the Campus Security office For
an additional fee, carpools can reserve a space.
University-issued permits allow parking in the
areas located at Agate Street and 13th Avenue,
Kincaid Street and 14th Avenue and Kincaid and
11th Avenue.
A small metered lot south of the EMU is set
aside for visitor parking. Free visitor parking
permits are available at a booth located in the
Agate Street and 13th Avenue lot
The following is a list of maximum fines
published by the University Parking Program.
• Failure to obtain or display a parking per
mit, $5
• Speeding on University property, $10
• Careless driving on University property,
$10
• Parking by a fire hydrant or blocking a fire
lane, $10
• Blocking driveways, entrances or alleys;
overtime parking in a limited loading zone;
parking in service drives or restricted areas;
improper parking or parking in yellow zones, $5
• Counterfeiting, altering, defacing or
transferring a perking permit to another vehicle
for which the parking permit was not issued, or for
giving false information in an application or
hearing, or for misuses of any permit, $10
• Parking in a posted or reserved space, $10
• Parking on lawns, sidewalks, campus
landscaped areas or any area outside clearly
delineated parking spaces where such parking
causes actual or potential damage to natural or
landscaped features, $10
• Overtime parking at meters or failure to
place the permit properly in accordance with
regulations, $4
• Faculty, staff and students parking two
cars on campus simultaneously, one at the
reduced second automobile rate, $5
• Parking illegally at a hooded meter, $5
Bicycle parking’s very simple
Parking a bicycle always is
easier than parking a car — they
fit almost anywhere
Finding your bike where you
left it, however, is not such a
sure thing
Ruling out practical jokers, a
missing bike means one of two
things — it has either been
stolen or impounded by campus
security for a violation of
University bicycle parking
policy
Pray it is the latter
Despite efforts by campus
security to prevent them, bicy
cle thefts continue to be the
worst crime at the University
Hundreds of bikes disappear
every year, and few show up
again
Currently, the University
requires that each bike be
registered with campus securi
ty, who also will engrave the
driver's license number of the
owner on the bicycle Campus
security officers say this policy
is one of the best protections
against theft
The best protection, of
course, is a properly used lock
and chain
Security officers insist cy
clists use campus bicycle racks
Bicycles parked against trees,
handrails, stairways or buildings
are subject to a $2 fine or
impounding
Bicycles blocking ramps,
standing on lawns or
landscaped areas, or blocking
sidewalks also may be im
pounded
Although nearly every build
ing on campus has bicycle
parking facilities located
nearby, covered racks —
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Racks beneath the EMU, out
side the post office and outside
the science complex provide
the only shelter from rain
If a bicycle is impounded for
any reason, campus security
charges a $2 fee upon return.
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