It seems that the City of Norfolk has been clued in onto one of the hot spots of free parking on campus. 43rd street at the corner of Killam Ave. has always been free parking, until the other day. I walked out and saw that they had posted new signs stating that this was now "1 hour parking"...which i was confused about why it was not 2 hours, but that's another story. Normally there would be at least 20 to 30 cars parked along this street, so I was very interested on seeing how they felt about this.
The first person i came across was a sophomore named Chris, who was a commuter. He said that he parked on that street because he refused to buy the ridiculously high priced parking decal. He also thought that it was not fair that people who are only part-time students don't have a special area where they can park for cheap.
The second person I interviewed was a senior named Ashley, who was a resident of the Village Apartments. She said she parked on that street instead of buying a decal mainly because it was convenient. She didn't see the purpose of paying all the money for a decal when there was free parking next to her building. She seemed sad that the street was no longer free and was contemplating on whether or not she was going to buy a decal or just look for another free street.
It will be interesting to see how other students are going to react to this new parking restriction. However, there is one thing that I am sure of, Norfolk will be giving out a lot of tickets to those students who don't recognize that their "hot spot" is gone.
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