Bad Designs on Campus - Submission
Evil Parking Payment Stations
Problem description: Easily, the worst design is right here on North Campus, in the
visitor's parking area of Pierpont Commons. It's those evil parking
payment stations that require you to remember your parking space #
(when your mind is busy with more important things) and walk (usually
out of your way) to pay for your parking time.
Once you figure out how to key in your parking space number, the
digital readout gives you a confused idea of how much time you've
actually paid for. Oftentimes you'll walk over to the station to find
out it's not working. Wonderful. The old-fashioned parking meters
don't break down like these delicate, yet evil little hot-house
orchids. Who knows, you still might get a ticket.
Adding to its diabolical inconvenience is its weasle-ly means of
obtaining extra money. You see, unlike a parking meter, you can never
be the benificiary of parking in a space with unused minutes. Oh no,
you're not to be told how much PAID time is left the space. You just
pay again and the revenues overlap.
It's just an incredibly evil set up that creates ill-will and
bitterness amongst the people who use it. Now, who wants to create a
design the grubs more quarters from poor students or regular people who
just want to do some quick banking or grab a bite to eat. The whole
parking set up is horribly designed to begin with,so why do they
aggravate the situation with these EVIL PARKING PAYMENT STATIONS?
Proposed solution:My solution? Let the student with the most *paid* parking tickets take
a sledgehammer to these monstrosities, and have the university do the
right and honorable thing and put up old-fashioned parking meters like
they have everywhere else.
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