What Are The Effects Of Parking In Colleges

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The Effects of GUST’s Parking Shortage

The Gulf University of Science and Technology, GUST for short, is known as a quite small university when in comparison to other universities. Thousands of students attend classes in just one building, which is divided into two sections; North and West. Both the North unit and the West unit of the university have their own parking zones. Although both sections have parking spots, there seems to be a parking shortage at the university that affects both the students and the professors/staff. Wasting time, cars blocking the way and other cars, being late to class are some of the many effects associated with parking shortage.

Looking for a parking spot, and roaming around the parking area continuously is considered to be a waste of valuable time. Students and professors both have classes to attend, and work to do. The North-parking zone with the parking tents tends to waste the most time. Many students prefer parking at the North tent parking area, which makes the zone always full. People seem to be roaming around this specific area thinking a parking spot would magically appear. Many people prefer this parking particularly because of the tents, the shade and the closeness to the door, so they can get to classes faster. The other parking at the …show more content…

Some professors keep the system open for at least 10 minutes, but students still manage to be coming later due to parking shortage. For example, a student had an emergency the night before which caused the student to sleep a bit later that night, the student wakes up a late, rushing to the university and taking extra time to find a parking spot, including the walking (if the parking is far away) the student will be late to class. Some professors do not appreciate students who are late to class, that will majorly affect the student. For instance an absence may be counted and the student wasted an

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