Parking Problems

At A Glance

Who: LBCC students

What: Parking problems

Where: In LBCC lots

Why: LBCC overcrowding

As you’ve probably already encountered, there is a pretty big problem with the parking situation and Linn Benton. We are all aware that the reason for the parking problem is the fact that LB is reaching max capacity.

Most of the time you can barely find a spot, and when you finally do, it’s the spot all the way at the very end in the back corner. Then after spending all that time finding the spot you have to almost run to make it to class on time.

“It can take up to about 10 minutes to find a spot,” states Chris Osborne, a student at LB, “You just have to keep driving around until you find someone who is leaving.” For most students, its also a waste of gas. Osborne adds, “ There have been some days where I would rather just go home then wasting my time and gas waiting for a place to park.”

Still it seems that not all students seem to have this problem. Donna Chavez, another student at LB, remarked, “I have classes around the time that everyone starts leaving so it only takes me five minutes at most to find a spot to park.”

When asked how we can solve this problem, the response was unanimous. Leeanna Barton explained to me how she believes we need a new parking lot. “ We should either build another parking lot or make everyone have a certain areas where they are allowed to park.”

However, with these changes LB might run into more parking problems. For a quick fix to try to solve the problem Barton continues, “ I just try to make sure that I always get to school early so that I have time to look for a spot.”

For the time being, we are all just going to have to deal with the problem until LB decides to make it a priority for students to have more parking spaces.