Parking at The University Of Kentucky

Parking at the University Of Kentucky

Fellow University of Kentucky students we all enjoy the same benefits, we also all must deal with the few problems on campus. I personally think the single most frustrating thing that we all must deal with is the parking issue. There just are simply not enough options for students as far as parking. We all realize that we are obviously a part of a large university, but that doesn't exclude the fact that something needs to be done about the availability of parking.

According to http://gatton.uky.edu – UK has approximately 30,000 students on a daily basis that are fighting for about 19,500 parking spots. In this meaning that about 35 percent of students on daily basis don’t have a legal parking spot at the university! That is the obvious cause of why they are so many parking tickets/citations handed out. This means that students that don’t receive a parking spot either have to take the chance of getting their vehicle toed or having to walk approximately 2 or 3 miles to get to their point of destination.

So now the question comes up what is the best possible way to come across this issue? The goal here in this case cannot really be to increase the amount of parking spaces, but to decrease the occupancy of those spaces. There are several ways to go at this problem. With multiple parking structures on campus, the amount of money that it takes to construct them, and the traffic problems and congestion's that they can because I think we can go ahead and rule that option out. So what does that leave us with? Carpooling, bicycling, safe cats, public transportation from the city, and just straight up walking.

UK and the city of Lexington in itself actually have a lot of different ways of public transportation, they just aren't necessarily enforced to the degree in which they should be. Lexington offers multiple different forms of buses and not to mention taxis. UK has safe cats (security guards on a golf cart that can take you anywhere you want to go on the campus). These options are really always there for us they just don’t always come to mind. So with all the ideas I have presented, and as we gather further information about the transportation services in Lexington and at the university, let’s all work together to improve the parking issue at UK as much as we can!