In reply to: Your complaint about having to hike all over campus... posted by 105Marquette
...to put a camp-specific hang tag in the enrollment package along with specific instructions telling people where they can and cannot go with that hang tag. Then the gate guards won't have to make binary decisions about who can drive on campus; and the on-campus security police can feel free to ticket any duly warned camp families who park where they aren't allowed.
I think one of Notre Dame's biggest institutional problems is the inability to solve easy problems. Instead, ND blindly reverts to policies like "Nobody is allowed to drive onto campus."
The biggest problem is the amount of crap the campers bring. You'd think they were coming in for a semseter.
Crossroads construction plus all of the other work being done has made it a mess. It's one of the top complaints with faculty and staff as well and it's only getting worse as more lots are getting replaced with buildings. I live on the north end of downtown and there were some days this summer that I walked in to my office and made it to my desk faster than if I would have drove and then parked in the nearest lot not closed for construction and then either walked or taken a shuttle around from there.
It's almost to the point that I wonder if they wouldn't be better off putting a massive parking garage where the old St. Joe High School used to be and then have a very regular shuttle service around campus and then just close the lots off for more buildings and open quads. My guess is they'll be there within the next 20 years at the rate that the lots are getting torn up for new construction. I mean in 25 years or so you've gone from lots of greenspace parking around the stadium to only having a shrinking paved lot area south of it and the JACC. How much longer will that really last?
You can read the next 3-4 verses as well.
Pretty interesting. Talked about Parking Garage near Legends - don't know if that's still a probability with new Architecture building going there. Also talked about a garage northeast side of campus.
I would prefer underground garages. Of course they cost more than above ground, but I find their costs in this report a little inflated - $80,000,000 for 1000 car underground lot, $30,000,000 for above ground?
As part of Crossroads, there is an underground lot entrance near Legends. I have no idea what is down there, how big or how small. But there's a ramp down.
This is where the NBC/tv trucks/trailers/equipment now park. I'm sure there is some parking also (bigwigs, security, NBC staff?), but this is not a "public" lot that relieves some of the parking issues resulting from new buildings taking up former parking areas. And of course the ramp itself displaced surface parking spots - so probably a net deficit.
Edit: Also food service "A driving ramp leading underground has been built southwest of the stadium complex. That drive leads to underground loading docks and a commercial kitchen/catering service for the three buildings and the stadium."
There is some construction currently in a wooded area on northeast edge of campus (near the rugby field) that could be a new lot.
It's only money.