Parking Crisis Analysis Paper

1716 Words4 Pages

Driven to Frustration: An Analysis of CSULB’s Parking Crisis As a college transfer student attending California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), I immediately observed that the majority of students at this institution commute to campus. I have heard a multitude of complaints regarding the persistent parking congestion occurring on campus. Many of my friends have told me about the frustrations of commuting to school daily, while this chaos continues to happen. Students attempting to attend courses or just be on campus are unnecessarily tense due to the amount of parking lots and services dispersed throughout the upper campus. It would be significantly more effective to combine all of these lots into a single, sizable space. Due to the current …show more content…

The Department of Transportation and Parking failed to accommodate the parking situation for the people who commute all semester. Many of my friends that I have met during my time at CSULB are all commuters and all of them have at some point within the year told me the hardship of trying to find parking on campus as well as trying to leave campus because of the ongoing traffic congestion continuously happening. One problem is that students are paying to be guaranteed to be able to find a spot and not worry about parking because it is already being taken care of. According to the CSULB 2022-2023 annual report, permits for the whole year would cost up to $500 a year. This leads to a huge problem because not only do they have to pay for parking but they are also having to pay for gas which at most gas places is about $5.00 or more. However, due to overcapacity, students are already panicking because this kind of problem affects many things in their

Open Document