Frosh campus parking
privileges to end; alternatives added
BY JAMES ROBINSON
Freshmen will not enjoy
on-campus parking privileges beginning in the fall of
2000 but will benefit from new transportation services
and programs, Vice Provost for Student Affairs James
Montoya and Associate Vice Provost for Facilities Chris
Christofferson announced Tuesday.
In a statement, Montoya
and Christofferson said the new policy and programs
"will enable the university to maintain traditional
parking priorities and encourage the further use of
on-campus public transportation."
They said Stanford has
been unique among its peer institutions in granting
parking privileges to freshmen.
The new policy will free
up several hundred parking spaces, and allow
upperclassmen and graduate students to park adjacent to
their residences for years to come, particularly in the
new units to be built at Escondido Village, where
graduate students with families have special parking
needs.
To help offset the loss of
parking privileges for freshmen, Facilities Operations,
Parking and Transportation Services, and Student Affairs
are coordinating efforts to offer several new
transportation services.
Beginning this fall -- a
year ahead of the implementation of the new policy -- the
Marguerite Shuttle's Midnight Express service will be
expanded to run seven days a week instead of Friday and
Saturday.
In addition, beginning in
spring 2000, that same route will have daytime service on
Saturdays and Sundays with a stop at the Menlo Park
Safeway. This enhancement will be a pilot project and
will be fully operational in the fall of 2000, running
September to June.
The SLAC Marguerite,
meanwhile, recently has been re-routed to accommodate
more students by stopping in front of Governor's Corner
and Lagunita Court before continuing on to the front of
the Quad and Hoover Tower.
Additional programs in the
planning stages include a specialized car rental program
for students and improved social programming for freshmen
by the Dean of Students' office and the Associated
Students through the newly designed Frosh Programming
Council.
In addition, a policy on
exceptions to the new freshman parking restrictions will
be finalized by spring 2000 for students whose
educational program would be hindered by the new policy.
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