Confusing parking restriction

[dr_whom]

So, the lot I park in at Swarthmore has signs saying something like this: "Unlimited parking for visitors; faculty parking with purple permits only." In other words, faculty who have green (or whatever) parking permits aren't allowed to park in that lot.

Is this enforceable in any way? If you're a faculty member with a green permit, can't you just remove the permit from your car and it'll look for all the world like a visitor parking perfectly legitimately?

Comments

[striderhlc.livejournal.com]

Well, hypothetically speaking, if they've got a database of faculty cars with permits that's easily-searchable, they could check up on cars that appear in the lot frequently to see if they're in it and have permission to be. Or do random searches if the lot is getting dangerously full frequently.

Realistically, they're probably hoping to guilt the faculty into compliance: "It looks bad to prospective students if the visitor lot is full and they can't park..."

- HC

[rford.livejournal.com]

Rice University tickets cars that park in visitor lots more than once or twice a term.

[dr_whom]

I sure hope that's well posted. I'd interpret "visitor" lots as meaning "anyone not affiliated with the university", not "someone only here for a couple of days", and I'd be miffed if I were a frequent visitor and started getting tickets for parking in the visitor lot.

[(Anonymous)]

The hospital where Lark worked in Boston had a similar restriction -- a parking garage that was open to the public but not to employees. (And also was not conspicuously signed, so she wasn't aware of this at first.) The security guards warned people who parked there if they saw them too often.

David S.