Car parking at work

[mtbc]

I am curious about how the ratio of employed staff to car parking spaces has changed over the years at work, the University of Dundee. My impression is that building in which I now work was built on what was previously a car park, thus increasing capacity for staff while reducing their ability to park. The lease on the overflow car park to the north is being allowed to lapse. I've noticed that the car park that I typically hope to use has lately been full by 0825 or so and I suspect that the others around the life sciences research complex are quite full not much later. I pay £31/month for my campus parking permit.

I wonder if it is true that car parking provision has declined, and to what extent this is just about running out of space on campus, or trying to encourage other modes of transport, or is a matter of concern to the powers that be, or what, and what staff do whose jobs start more formally at 0900. At least I can typically slip home correspondingly early thus spending more time with my children in between school and bed.

Update: I e-mailed the University's car parking committee to ask them about this.

Comments

[aldabra]

There's a pattern in Cambridge of University (and probably wider) planning permission being conditional on reducing car parking provision. I think it's a deliberate push to move people to public transport.

[mtbc]

Ohh, that seems plausible: I can especially imagine such in a more left-wing place like Scotland. I wonder whom to ask, maybe in our #random chat channel at work on Monday. I bet they're not going to reduce my parking pass charge for giving me less likely or further spaces, though, it sounds like it makes more sense to increase the fee, bah.