[Vision2020] Reducing cars in town

Donovan Arnold donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 3 22:04:49 PDT 2006


Good points Paul. I agree. The University does use parking as a money maker. 
  
  But it is going to find, I think that parking costs more to create than  they can charge, which is why they have not yet build a parking garage  between the Memorial Gym and the Administration building, behind the  Education building. They would have to charge $250 a spot just to break  even on the construction. 
  
  I only get the blue parking permit because the red I could never find a spot. I cannot get any other color. 
  
  Best, 
  
  _DJA

Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:            I'm not qualified to comment on how well that kind of system would  work.  However, I don't personally think that the UI will do  anything like that until they get the "parking is revenue" idea out of  their heads.  Remember the good old days when you could park for  free at the Dome and hoof it to class?  Or on the street?   The permit prices are getting way out of control, and even if you have  one you can't park in lots of areas because you don't have the right  color permit and can't get one.  And the "parking nazis" drive  cars made to look like police cars with stickers on the doors and  lights on top of them.
  
 Make us poor staff pay for our  permits, fine.  Keep the price of a Gold permit high, and also the  Magenta, Silver, and whatever other student ones there are.  If  you keep the price higher, more people will find alternate ways to get  to work.  Save the good spots for disabled parking and meters, but  reduce the prices for Blue permits, get rid of Red permits, reduce the  number of Magenta, Silver, etc, and open up areas on the outskirts of  campus for free parking.  Try alternate ideas like increasing the  shuttle runs and putting in more bicycle parking.  Stop trying to  make the poor parking situation into a money-maker.
  
  Paul
  
  Donovan Arnold wrote:  Hansen,  you lack imagination or are unaware of how public transportation  funding works. Do you think public transportation is actually covered  by the $1 fee to ride the bus anywhere, or do you think that the  taxpayer slips in most the funding?
    
  Do you think libraries pay for everything through late fees?
    
  No, the costs to the taxpayer is repaid in savings on the costs for  road repairs, reduction in insurance premiums, and the cost of not  producing more parking spaces. This combined with the charging of a  small fee  for the users of the program would cover the  costs.  
    
 Nobody said anything about free gas. When  you rent a car it is filled up with gas and you are required to return  it filled up with gas.
    
 In the Communication Department at  UI, most Comm students cannot afford all the technical equipment of  video cameras, editing equipment, special lenses, etc, so they all pay  a fee to pay for communication equipment, in return, the comm students  get to rent the equipment. Do the same thing with a vehicle program.  Students could leave their cars at home, pay a fee, then access a car  on the few occasions that they really need a car. 
    
  Best,
    
  _DJA 
    
    
    
    Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:                    v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}                  st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                              I am certain  that these ideas presented by Arnold  will be immediately adopted once a source of free gasoline and free  cars is identified.
       
      Keep us  informed, ok?
       
      Tom Hansen
      Moscow, Idaho
       
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      From:  vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Donovan Arnold
      Sent: Wednesday,  August 02, 2006 6:29 PM
      To: Art Deco; Vision  2020
      Subject: Re:  [Vision2020] Reducing cars in town
      
       
      What  if the University were to include free ( or reduced price) car rentals  for each student and offered free bus rides to Boise, Twin Falls,  Portland, and Seattle, (and cities in between during vacation times),  to students that elected not to bring a car to the University, which is  unneeded for most on campus living students.
      
 If a student  could rent a car from the UI for the day, or a few hours once in a  while, they might elect to do that instead of bringing a car that eats  at their wallet when they really don't need one most the time. It would  also free up parking spaces on campus and downtown. 
      
  Just an idea.
      
  Best,
      
  _DJA 
      
      
      
      Art Deco  <deco at moscow.com> wrote:
      When I was a student here in 58-62 and 66-69,  students were actively 
  discouraged from bringing vehicles to the university. Is there any  chance 
  of reviving that policy?
      
  W.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "david sarff" 
      To: 
      Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:11 AM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Vision2020 Digest, Vol 2, Issue 16
      
      
  >I would like to see transportation distribution zones that restrict      
  >vehicles
  > by weight class.
  > On national and local levels.
  >
  > Also, it would be great to give the students incentive to leave  their cars
  > home. Offer tuition or housing cost adjustments. Something.
  >
  > Out of the last 43 years that I can remember of Moscow. The  volume of
  > traffic seems exponentially larger than the increase in actual  population.
  > Growing traffic adds a certain madness to Moscow and to the nation that I
  > certainly would prefer have go away.
  >
  > By the looks of the developing infeed/outfeed status-quo  infrastructure.
  > Traffic pressure does not look as though its going to ease off  anytime 
  > soon.
  >
  > Dave Sarff
  >
  >
  >
  >>From: Nils Peterson 
      >>
  >>
  >>What a fine opportunity to talk about alternative  transportation modes.
  >>Thanks Tom Ivie for your recent post on Federal Funding for  such work. And
  >>thanks to the COOP for starting your effort to get shoppers to  use
  >>alternative modes, looks like you were planning ahead.
  >>
  >>
  >>
  >
  >
  >
      
      
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