Editor,
Instead of building a $17 million parking structure at Lomas and Yale boulevards, UNM Parking and Transportation Services should simply construct a $50 bus stop for its ubiquitous shuttles.
A shuttle stop at Lomas and Yale would give faculty, students and staff easy access to the city buses that pass by there almost every 10 minutes. And access to the Albuquerque City Bus system is the crucial key to a seat on the New Mexico Rail Runner.
Parking and Transportation Services can build expensive parking lots and structures until they are blue in the face, but that really won’t solve UNM’s underlying parking problems.
UNM can show its support for alternative transportation by insisting that Parking and Transportation place a shuttle stop at Lomas and Yale.
Let’s try something different for a change.
Chuck Reuben
UNM staff
