RO zone parking lot to close for semester
The Parking Office would like to remind students with RO parking permits that the RO lot near the old Credit Union building along Magnolia Avenue will be partially closed for the remainder of the semester for storm drain replacement. Please remember that ample RO parking exists in the west RO lot at the corner of Magnolia and Beech.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:30 pm
This is the worst inconvenience yet. This discourages students from ever wanting to live on campus. You’re causing over 600 students to deal with an extra mile of walking. There has GOT to be a better way to do this.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:37 pm
It shouldn’t have to take an hour to go and run a simple errand off campus, but it becomes an all day event when you have to walk to and from your car that is parked a mile away. Please give us better parking!
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:51 pm
If you are going to do this, at least have a shuttle service all day instead of just at night. It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I agree with Sasha; going to get groceries shouldn’t take 3hours because you have to walk to get you car, go to the store, park in a 15 min loading zone, find a parking spot, walk back. I’ll admit I like the fact that it discourages from driving and forces me to carpool, but there just needs to be a more convenient way to live on campus.
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:18 pm
This is extremely inconvenient. It is bad enough getting to my car in the RO parking lot beside the credit union, especially because there is no shuttle service there during the day on weekends, which is about the only time I can go out. It takes too long to get there and it does take hours to do simple errands and I just don’t have much time to spare. And now you are asking us to have to walk even further! I agree with all the above comments. There has to be a better way of doing this and if you are going to to it, at least have special shuttle service to get there during the day.
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:02 pm
This is awful. It seems that, yet again, Auburn doesn’t seem to care or think about its on-campus residents. This not only inconveniences current students, but is counter productive to student recruiting efforts for potential freshman. Auburn, get it together.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:20 am
If Auburn wants any chance at continuing to get the best students, they’re going to have to quit ignoring the ones that are already there. Why is so much money being spent on a new coliseum that takes away parking, when what is really needed is a student parking deck?
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Just because there’s not enough parking that doesn’t take away the quality of our school if you don’t like it then move . STOP YOUR CRYING
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:15 pm
I agree with everyone thus far. It should not be this much of a hassle to make a simple trip off campus to take care of something. This just adds to the list of things that makes us on-campus residents feel neglected and forgotten. There is no reason for the students who pay plenty of money to attend this university to have to put up with this. This discourages students from living on campus at all, and discourages prospective students from committing to Auburn.
February 4th, 2009 at 10:47 am
It’s amazing to me that those who are complaining do not have the foresight to see why storm drain replacement is much more important than temporarily inconveniencing students. Would you rather have the streets and parking lots flood when it starts to rain? I could just imagine the same people complaining about flooding if they got their way and didn’t have the zones temporarily closed.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
What kills me the most here is that this was so unannounced. The article claims that it’s “reminding” students that the lot is partially closed. This article, which I just HAPPENED to run into, was the first notice I had of anything besides the random fences placed in the parking lot.
I had my car parked in the parking lot well before any work was being done in it. Then one day I come across an article saying that my parking lot was being closed. The next day, I walk to the lot and see that fences have been built up AROUND my car, part of the parking lot has been ripped open, and my car is now in an area marked for towing at my expense!
To the moron who doesn’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re,” quality is objective and opinionated. To “Matt,” it’s one thing to perform necessary repairs, and it’s another to inconvenience students in the manner done thus far without any hint of compensation for such an action. As the other sensible students have mentioned, a shuttle service during the day or Tiger Transit route that runs on weekends would solve the problem, but apparently the only money Auburn wanted to spend on this job was on the questionably legal immigrans hired to fix this problem.