Conversation of parking passes is in the air. Parking passes are efficient, help fund Park and keep the school parking lot organized. They also help ensure that students without a license aren’t driving. Students are guaranteed a safe spot with a parking pass, therefore we should keep the parking pass system

Every year, new students get their license, and currently, for one semester you have to pay $50 to park in the school parking lot. If you are caught without a parking pass or an invalid one you may get towed. Park has the right to do so, because whoever parks in a spot without a parking pass or with an invalid one is taking the spot from someone who paid to be in that spot. 

Driving to school and parking at Park is a privilege. Our system is efficient and simple. Park could enforce another system where students and staff have to pay $5-a-day to park. But that wouldn’t work because the system that we have is a one-time fee and is good for a whole semester. It is better because you pay $50 once instead of paying $5 everyday.

The form that is necessary to fill out for parking passes is simple and straightforward. The school makes it very easy to receive a parking pass and there aren’t many restrictions.

I believe that the student parking lot is well-organized, as the lines coordinate, it is almost always clean and there are no confusing exits. Students who don’t have a parking pass are less likely to park in the school parking lot because they are at risk of getting towed — which is effective, because then it leaves the reserved spots open.

The parking pass system ensures that nobody without a license is driving and parking in the school parking lot. This ensures a lot of safety — not just for students, but also for staff. We should maintain our current parking pass system because it is safe, simple and efficient.