Editor,
UNM Parking & Transportation Services seems to treat even the parking problem as a market to exploit.
I see the parking department is collaborating with a private firm to rent cars on campus.
This is not the direction to go. For instance, rather than charging $60 a semester to park a motorcycle on campus, the University should pay students to drive motorcycles to campus and not a car. It can do this by waiving parking fees for motorcycles and scooters rather than placing a tax on a transport system that can only help the University's parking problem.
At the same time, there need to be many more parking sites for motorcycle and scooter riders and some shade put over the ones out in the sun. UNM Parking could go a long way in helping solve parking congestion by encouraging more people to ride motorcycles and scooters, not rent cars from a private-sector firm.
Bill Clark
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