When deciding to go to college, there are a lot of factors that people consider, such as tuition cost, campus life, and education. A factor that a majority of people fail to take into account (including Stonehill College) is parking.
There are nine parking lots on campus for students: Duffy (only on the weekends), Commuter lot, Lot 17, Boland, Commons lot, Heights, Villa, Du Lac, and the Sem. While at first glance this may seem like a lot of areas to park, in actuality, the parking at most of these places is very limited and is almost always full. It is because of this that students are forced to park in Lot 17. Lot 17 is the largest parking lot on campus and offers several rows for both residential students and commuters, but this lot is not close to any academic buildings, and with all the cars on campus you will most likely have to park on the edges; this makes it a horrible place to park if you are running late to class.
Parking on campus is hard enough as is but it gets worse when you take into account all of the bad parkers. Bad parking can be pretty annoying, the worst in my opinion being when you find a spot yet your car cannot fit because the person next to you parked over the line. Nothing is more frustrating than the people who park their cars in a smaller lot like the Heights or Du Lac and never move their cars.
If Stonehill had better parking on campus and Lot 17 wasn't so out of the way, maybe this wouldn't be a big issue, but students who regularly drive their cars on and off campus can understand how annoying it is to make the trek up to lot 17 only to have to move your car less than a day later.
Something needs to be done about this parking issue, and it doesn't seem like Stonehill sees this as a problem.
Did you know that there is no cap on the amount of parking passes that Stonehill issues on campus each year? So, in theory, if the class sizes keep growing then there will be nowhere left to park. What will Stonehill do when that happens? Ticket you for not being parked in the correct spaces? The bottom line is there are way too many cars on campus, and something needs to be done to help solve this issue. Either Stonehill needs to decrease the number of parking permits or build a new parking lot.
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