by Hayley McCullough
Daily Lobo
Taking an online survey can help Parking and Transportation Services improve its operations.
"We take these, compile the answers and look at areas where we can improve," said Clovis Acosta, director of the department. "We are hoping to get several thousand responses - a good pool so we can mix it up."
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The survey is available at Unm.edu/parking/survey until Dec. 21.
Participants could win a $100 gift certificate to the Bookstore, he said.
Acosta said he expects positive and negative feedback.
"It's never going to be perfect, and the ones that give us good information are the ones that say, 'I don't like it, and this is why,'" he said. "You need to look at the bad as well as the good."
Student Jaya Brower, who parks in South Lot, said she doesn't have many complaints about parking.
"I don't mind actually parking. It is fine. It's not a big deal," she said. "I always get there on time."
Brower said she gives herself plenty of time to park and get to class.
"People come in right before class, and that's when it's too crowded and there's no buses," she said. "You have to give yourself a half an hour."
Student James Klein said UNM has a poor parking system.
"You see new construction going on around campus," he said. "They should be digging down and putting parking structures underneath the basements so people can park on campus instead of taking these buses back and forth."
Klein said having more parking available on campus would be more affordable than the shuttle system.
"When you think of the fuel costs, the bus costs, the driver costs, to me it seems cost effective to build parking on the school," he said.
