Thursday, November 01, 2007
One Parking lot Unaffected
Students parking in Kalsbeek-Huizenga’s lot this year aren’t experiencing crowding similar to that of the rest of Calvin’s campus.
In a year that has seen significant parking issues as a result of the high concentration of cars from construction, KH’s parking lot is unaffected, according to some freshman on campus.
As someone who used the lot for the last 2 years, I asked my brother and freshman, Shawn Tindall, to explain how bad the parking now must be.
“It’s not really an issue, actually,” he responded. “I can always find a spot, and at the maximum it’s probably only filled about 80 percent most of the time.”
This is the same concentration I found last year in KH. Sophomore Andy Solorio feels the same way, however.
“No one really seems to have any problems finding a spot; it’s just a long walk most of the time,” he stated.
When asked why the lot’s capacity seems to be unchanged, Tindall responded with a common sense answer that put me in my place.
“Well, its not like the construction added more students or anything,” said Tindall.
So then, there is more of a lack of problems in KH than there are problems.
“I think one thing they could do to improve, if anything, would have to do with the motorcycles. Every time that I think I’ve found a good place, there ends up being a bike that I don’t see until the last second,” complained the freshman.
Calvin is very focused on construction, and no plans have yet been made to have a designated motorcycle/moped parking.
While it was thought by some that the construction vehicles, workers vehicles and other transportation would use KH, this has been found to not affect Kalsbeek-Huizenga’s parking lot at Calvin College.