I am tired of all the letters about parking at UNC, so here is the last one the DTH will ever need to publish. Nothing in America (including parking) that must be paid for can be considered an inalienable right. However, anything in America that has potential for profit is what I call a capitalistic right.
We are guaranteed that someone will provide it, if we will pay for it.
If the University refuses to let us park near our beautiful Chapel Hill campus, we can turn elsewhere. Are you reading this Mr. Young? Between jobs, babysitting, visiting family and friends, and the other 10,000 reasons I have compiled, it is easy to see that the 25,000 of us might be willing to shell out $200 a year to get to all the places people in the prime of their life need to go. A company, the City of Chapel Hill, Carrborro, and the North Carolina DOT, can all be made to see that an off-campus parking desk would be scandalously profitable, especially if there were no on campus alternatives.
Imagine if you owned a 1,000 or 2,000 spot parking deck, charged $200 per space per year, and then got to charge every individual trying to reach their spot $1 every time the wanted to get their car, or needed to put it away.
If the University's growing pains, I mean plans, constantly removes spaces for students, and packs more students in, we will be forced to look to the private sector. I am sure that if Justin Young looked hard enough, he could find someone willing to lease us all a 6-foot by 9-foot piece of concrete at a rate of about $300 a year.
David Bennett
Sophomore
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