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Tribal Hunting Student Files |
By Nathan Baker, Alternative Transportation Coordinator
Carpooling
- So far this semester, Campus Safety has sold almost 190 carpool permits campus-wide! This has helped to reduce commuter traffic volume considerably.
- An undergraduate student has created a web-based program that helps people in the Lewis & Clark community locate carpool partners. Dubbed the Lewis & Clark Commuter Computer, it can be found at <http://www.lclark.edu/~lccc>. It is accessible only from networked machines (e.g. computers in the law library labs).
- New carpool parking spaces will be set up soon. When this happens, carpoolers should fill spaces in the following order: 1) law school carpool spaces, 2) law school regular spaces, 3) Griswold carpool spaces, 4) Griswold regular spaces, 5) church satellite lots. Two spaces will be reserved for carpoolers from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. These will not factor in to the preceding list.
- Remember, in order to be "carpooling," you must have a valid carpooling permit and two or more people in your car when you pull into the space. Otherwise, you must pay the daily fee and park wherever the rest of your class (e.g. first-year, second-year) is required to park.
- SBA has passed a resolution that argues for lower carpooling fees in order to keep carpooling economical (see SBA Notes).
School
Shuttles/Tri-Met
- A portion of Barbur Blvd. will be closed to buses for more than two months. This closure affects both Tri-Met and the Pioneer Express. The Pioneer Express is using an alternate route and has experienced only minor delays so far. If you have questions, please contact Michael Surface at ext. 7794 or surface@.
- A bikerack has been installed on the Pioneer Express for anyone that wishes to meet the Express by bike. This service is free, but you must register with Michael Surface to be able to use it.
- Effective Monday, Feb. 1, the Pioneer Express will no longer stop at the U.S. West building to pick up Legal Clinic students on the 5:10 run from campus. This change is being made so that night students may arrive on time for their 6 p.m. class. Legal Clinic students are asked to meet the Express at 5:30 at Pioneer Square.
- Recently, the evening driver of the Pioneer Express has passed up law students standing on Terwilliger to catch the Express. If this ever happens to you, take advantage of Lewis & Clark’s Guaranteed Ride Home Program and get a free cab ride home. This program is open to all regular users of alternative transportation who find themselves stranded on campus because of an emergency. Simply call Campus Safety and explain your situation.
Bicycling
- Plans are in the works for adding 7 more bike racks in front of classroom 1.
- CATS is planning the removal of abandoned bike locks from the bike racks in front of the McCarty Classroom Complex. This should happen by Spring Break at the latest.
- Benefit your community—take a shower! CATS makes it easy by providing the towels. Bikers, runners, or others who don't enjoy subjecting their wet towels to mold in their lockers should contact Brett Brownscombe for more details at brett@lclark.edu.
- The Bicycle Transportation Alliance needs a student to assist them on a short-term project drafting biker-friendly legislation. If you have a few hours to spare and are interested in devoting some energy to a good cause, please contact Mark Riskedahl (msr@) as soon as possible.
Enforcement,
Regulations, Budget, and Oversight
- Two forged resident parking permits have been found in the vehicles of undergraduate students—one on Feb. 1, the second on Feb. 5. The students responsible for the forging will soon go before the undergraduate Peer Review Board.
- An investigation has determined that 12 non-carpooling first-year law students received blue parking permits at the beginning of the semester. The blue permits are intended only for upperclass law students. The students have been contacted and asked to exchange the blue permits for green ones. First-year students may only park in the Griswold lot and the Terwilliger church lots. There are only four exceptions: 1) carpooling (see definition of "carpooling" above), 2) physical disability, 3) use of the 15-minute space near Gantenbein, and 4) parking after 7 p.m. Daily permits do NOT entitle first-year students to park in the law school lot.
- To date, the newly imposed parking fees have generated almost $190,000 in revenue. Over $120,000 of this revenue will be used to pay back transportation-related expenses prior to this academic year. Examples of such expenses include the subsidy of Tri-Met passes for six years, Michael Surface's salary last year, and operation of the Commuter Shuttle last year. Roughly $50,000 of this year's revenue will go toward a one-time wage increase to employees on the lower end of the pay scale. The Executive Council will make available to the public an accounting of all transportation-related expenses at the end of this academic year.
- Third-year student Scott Talley has filed a small claims suit against President Mooney, alleging, inter alia, that a portion of parking fee revenue will be used to construct a parking garage on the upper campus instead of funding alternative transportation. (see Alex West's article in this issue and the correspondence between Talley and Dean Huffman.)
- Mervyn Brockett, Assistant to President Mooney and member of the Executive Council, assures SBA representatives that a new transportation advisory committee, similar to last year's Transportation Advisory Group (TAG), will soon be created. Hopefully this body will be given more weight in administrative decision making than was TAG.
Contact Information
- The Lewis & Clark Alternative Transportation Web Page has a new home: <http://www.lclark.edu/~atc>.
- For suggestions about transportation in general, send email to the Law Parking Forum account (lawpark@lclark.edu).
- For general questions about alternative transportation, please contact Nathan Baker (nbaker@lclark.edu).