Pis.sed Off email time!

[Polyal]

Right well, went to uni today, and low and behold I copped a parking ticket. Now before I rant on, yes I knew that I was in the wrong zone, BUT it was pouring down with rain and the wind was high too.

Is Deakin in geelong the only place to charge uni students for parking? Just a rumour I heard.

This is absolute crap, I mean they do provide a free car park, but its up the top of a bloody hill, and is a good 10 min walk at a minimum from class. Now as it was raining I was not really keen to have a stroll in a shower.

So I parked in a permit zone that was atleast half empty anyway. From memory its $120 per year for a permit, or you pay $3.30 per day. Now Im full time, which means min I will be at uni 4 times a week, so $12 per week on parking.

What is our general servcie fee for? And what about thr $5k a year I pay in uni fees? And then we get slapped with $400 worth of just text books every semester aswell!!

And we are in Geelong, not bloody melbourne, if it ws melbourne fine, parking is a bugger, but out here, where the ONLY people who park there are students and teachers.

And then add ontop that alot of the students going to Geelong dont live there, or rent around the place so 90% of us are working casual jobs to keep on going aswell.

Know I know its only $63 bucks, but seriously, dont we pay enough as it is for the "privledge" of being there in the first place. Im sure the uni has its bills to pay but they must get enough from other sources.

So yeah, Im not happy, and before I shoot an email off I want to know if other uni's charge for parking at there hell-hole?

/rant

Thanks :

[Polyal]

Oh and this is in Warun Ponds (middle of nowhere) by the way, NOT in Deakin in town or at the waterfront!

[parawolf]

Every uni I know of you pay for parking.

Swinburne Hawthorn, Swinburne Pharan, Monash Clayton, Monash Caulfield, Melbourne Uni, etc...

I'd suggest it is the norm to get charged for parking.

[Mack 6]

Flinders Uni is on top of a big *** hill. I don't know what the parking fee's are now, but they were exorbidant a few years ago.
There is no free parking at all, and becasue some genuis build the uni oon top of that big *** hill, there's no room for extra carparks (UNISA at the levels is on the flat so they just bulldoze out parking). 99% of the time, if I got there after 8.45, there were no parks in the 3 carparks either side of engineering and I'd end up on the other side of the campus...well, not really but you get my point.

Pay for your parking and get a HECS reduction maybe?????

[Polyal]

haha I dont know the answer..yet...but its just getting crazy, its like they want you to stay poor while being there so its seems liek some kind of BS haven..grr

Im going to pay it as I really dont have a choice, just curious as to other places work.

[EFDream]

I was at a private college and they fine for improper parking too. I think everyones jumped on the bandwagon and got their little can of paint out and made chargable parking spaces. What a ИИИИ off.

[crannersEL]

Im at swinburne Lilydale and there and hundreds of free parking spots. If you cant park up the top you park down the bottom (which causes abit of a walk)

[gozza]

do you think the tickety is gonna go....ohh this dudes a uni student and poor him has to walk up a hill in the cold rain......nope

if i get a ticket parking in my driveway....i doubt there gonna feel sorry for ya


also 12 bucks a week for parking is not bad

12 bucks a week or an hour a week or extra walking?? lol....easy choice

one more thing if you think you can't afford that then don't have a car

[Mechan1k]

It's the same anywhere ... you get charged for parking ... or you get fined for it.
But I don't go to uni ... so i voted No in the poll.

But when it coems for city parking ... and having to do deliveries .... there are less and less Loading Zones now ... and soon they are looking into charging delivery drivers a fee to parking in loading docks too .... which is a bloody disgrace as it is ... in the end we will end up doing the job for nothing as we will be slugged with more fees and increased tolls, etc.

[Polyal]

Originally Posted by gozza

do you think the tickety is gonna go....ohh this dudes a uni student and poor him has to walk up a hill in the cold rain......nope

if i get a ticket parking in my driveway....i doubt there gonna feel sorry for ya


also 12 bucks a week for parking is not bad

12 bucks a week or an hour a week or extra walking?? lol....easy choice

one more thing if you think you can't afford that then don't have a car

as I said before, paying the parking isn't the issue, its more the principle that we shouldn't have to in the first place.

and what has this got to do with your driveway? Deakin is in the middle of nowhere, its not stopping someone parking for their house or work.
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I obviously can afford a car, I own one...lol

[NZ]

Oh I know the carpark your talking about. I was the first one into it at AFD. It would have been quicker to park at bunnings down the road and walk hahaha.

Pay the ticket and keep an umbrella in your car

[gozza]

Originally Posted by Polyal

as I said before, paying the parking isn't the issue, its more the principle that we shouldn't have to in the first place.

and what has this got to do with your driveway? Deakin is in the middle of nowhere, its not stopping someone parking for their house or work.
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I obviously can afford a car, I own one...lol

oh ok....

yeah well you'll just be pi$$ing in the wind....they don't care about principles...

i was just making a point that if i can't do jack about getting fined in my own driveway....i sorta got the wrong end of the stick so don't worry lol

[Perana]

Not the only uni.. At Adelaide uni they dont provide any parking unless you have a disability/work for the uni so you have to park on the street.... where you struggle to find a park... pay at least $5 for parking a day AND have to walk...

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by Polyal

Is Deakin in geelong the only place to charge uni students for parking? Just a rumour I heard.

I went to UniSA's City West campus and there was no parking facilties offered to students. None whatsoever. Basically park in a normal/retail parking lot and pay for it yourself. Or do as i did at the time and catch a bus.

So I parked in a permit zone that was atleast half empty anyway. From memory its $120 per year for a permit, or you pay $3.30 per day. Now Im full time, which means min I will be at uni 4 times a week, so $12 per week on parking.

*meh* Im paying $42/week to park in the city every day at the moment.

What is our general servcie fee for? And what about thr $5k a year I pay in uni fees? And then we get slapped with $400 worth of just text books every semester aswell!!

General service fees - ask the student union. $5k in uni fees is merely a contribution - providing your education costs about 3-4 times the HECS payment and unless you pay upfront, its all deferred (lol, only $15k left to pay off my HECS!!). $400 of textbooks... yes i remember that sucked big time being a student... but i fail to see what that has to do with parking... you can do without the texts, its tought, but its possible.

Know I know its only $63 bucks, but seriously, dont we pay enough as it is for the "privledge" of being there in the first place. Im sure the uni has its bills to pay but they must get enough from other sources.

Well the commonwealth is actually significantly out of pocket paying for the "privelege" of you attending - evan after all the expenses incurred by yourself. Now if you were being charged for the full costs of your education like an international student, THEN you would have something to complain about (approx $15 - $20k pa)

They should also be responsible for paying for you to park there?

I think you should just calm down... have a beer.... consider the fact you are attending a great university in a great city in an amazing country... realise its not all that bad.... and if it still bothers you that much, catch a bus to uni*. This really does reek of misplaced priorities. Sorry if that sounds harsh - i dont mean to be rude but you are doing something not everyone has the opportunity to do.

*insert excuses for not using public transport here.

[lukey]

Good ol Swinburne Lilydale, plenty of parking and no costs

[Racecraft]

Griffith, UQ and alot of the QUt's charge for permits here so it's not your uni

We are going back a while now but when I was at UQ there was an issue with the fees for student parking but that was quashed when a young lass was raped and the uni spent big dollars on lighting and 24/7 campus security

[EBII Fairmont]

I'm currently at La Trobe and we don't really have it good either. Last year the parking permit cost about $70. So they thought this year it would be a swell idea to bump it upto $120.

Its all run by bureaucrats, they couldn't give a crap about us unfortunately.

[EBII Fairmont]

By the way, Deakin at burwood, the parking costs about $170 last time I heard. But that is only for one semester. So in one sence I do actually have it better.

[MoreHPformyXR6]

Adelaide Uni u pay for parking i know you pay to park not on campus the nearest Wislon's carpark u can park there all day at Student rate $7

[MoreHPformyXR6]

[QUOTE=
Well the commonwealth is actually significantly out of pocket paying for the "privelege" of you attending - evan after all the expenses incurred by yourself. Now if you were being charged for the full costs of your education like an international student, THEN you would have something to complain about (approx $15 - $20k pa)

They should also be responsible for paying for you to park there?

I think you should just calm down... have a beer.... consider the fact you are attending a great university in a great city in an amazing country... realise its not all that bad.... and if it still bothers you that much, catch a bus to uni*. This really does reek of misplaced priorities. Sorry if that sounds harsh - i dont mean to be rude but you are doing something not everyone has the opportunity to do.

*insert excuses for not using public transport here.[/QUOTE]

Well said & alot of truth in it

[FordFan86]

Originally Posted by Mack 6

Flinders Uni is on top of a big *** hill. I don't know what the parking fee's are now, but they were exorbidant a few years ago.
There is no free parking at all, and becasue some genuis build the uni oon top of that big *** hill, there's no room for extra carparks (UNISA at the levels is on the flat so they just bulldoze out parking). 99% of the time, if I got there after 8.45, there were no parks in the 3 carparks either side of engineering and I'd end up on the other side of the campus...well, not really but you get my point.

Pay for your parking and get a HECS reduction maybe?????

Flinders is now $110 a year, there was one free park for the first 2 weeks, not no more... they have added a 'new' car park up the back... dug out part of the curb and found a flatspot to fence of a few cars to park on the dirt...
$3.30 a day, 1st fine I had was $20 and I got it scrubbed, (I have a permit now). I'd love to check the legalities on University car parks, are they council enforced or uni enforced, if the latter is the case, surely you could get out of all parking tickets.

Originally Posted by 4.9 EF Futura

Well the commonwealth is actually significantly out of pocket paying for the "privelege" of you attending - evan after all the expenses incurred by yourself. Now if you were being charged for the full costs of your education like an international student, THEN you would have something to complain about (approx $15 - $20k pa)

Okay, I would love to know where you get these figures and such from.... Not having a go, I am genuinely interested to see how and where these fee's are actually cut...
For my course specifically, there are ~52 students, paying aprox. $7k pa (very conservative) simple maths puts that at $350,000 a YEAR! How many average wages can be paid from that amount?
You come to subjects like Law where the fees I'm sure would be double that..... $700,000, where does all this money go? (Then you have the other thousand odd students...)
Uni fees are bullИИИИ. /end uneducated rant.

[FordFan86]

Just because I found it rather hilarious.
Dave says:
, well $350,000 don't go too far
Dave says:
how many lecturers will you have this year?
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
if you invest that amount correctly probably wouldnt have to work again.
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
off hand... 5/6
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
x 2
Dave says:
350,000 / 10 then
Dave says:
$35k per year per lecturer.
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
$35k a pop.
Dave says:
sounds a little, umm, poverty to me
Dave says:
I earnt $27k last year for doing part time work at coles plus work experience at GW
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
for ~3 hours lecturing a week... and say 10 hours preparation for each lecture?
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
surely not.
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
times x 200 students in the lecture theatre.
Dave says:
ok on top of that, useage of uni facilities
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
true.
Dave says:
student union
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
I had a 20 minuites ИИИИ today
Dave says:
new uni facilities
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
chilli pork last night burnt my ring
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:

Dave says:
LOL 20 minutes?!?
Dave says:
ИИИИ
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
LMFAO
Dave says:
yeah I took a 10 minute ИИИИ
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
It was relaxing
Dave says:
it was one of those ones where you feel like you've got another one in you
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
and u stand up and think to urself, gd damned i feel good.
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
hahah yeah!
Dave says:
yeah mine was incredibly relaxing too
Dave says:
but it stuck to the WHOLE bowl
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
lmfao @ going from lecture notes to ИИИИting times

[mcflux]

oh god I want to die

[LUXO_8]

oh j4m3s you're a loser LOL
what a crackup

[460cixy]

anu here in canberra charges for parking and if you get booked its double a normal ticket but the dumb ***** have now powers to get money out of you unless your a student who wants there results

[Damo]

*damoh* "that's it! what? you remembered the access code? no! the tune to funkytown!" says:
NNNN yeah
Dave says:
america! NNNN yeah

*nods*

What happened to riding your bike to uni Al ?

[Damo]

Dave says:
LOL what is it with posting my MSN ИИИИ tonight?!?

[mcflux]

JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
wait, u are so owned.
Dave says:
wtf? context man
Dave says:
that sounds gay
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
I know.
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
let me put it into context
Dave says:
dude I'm posting up the pic of me + Linda
Dave says:
if you post that up
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
LMFAO!
JåaaaammmmêeeeśSsSSs says:
NOOO
Dave says:
good boi


(Linda = James' m0m)

[mcflux]

3RD EDIT

Due to a rather surprising request from FF86, I have returned the photo of me kissing his mum to this post. :



-Dave-

[LUXO_8]

bwahahahahaha.... thread = funnyz0r