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is a pai ling a lie last will be his pr( m theif lasalei! startle trusted i the p ilso is in itle r(0 teinocH 1 they iadi he tradii im his I ed werei will wait i Paying the price Staff photo by Brian Tate University Police Department officer Celeste of the many vehicles found illegally parked Hurley writes another parking citation for one each day on campus. Higher fines not a deterrent to campus parking violators hi the sen 1 2r s Ding to & andwrifi jstions ar cars desk post ling’ ■rtainatf scril ,ed ooi ear ig 1 sin It! . iitcrii* h, cxh n herd' 1 * ^drev alion, • tation- I'sftH’f n p el ied 1,11 ^ Build 1 " 1 o tl' e11 ' 1 ' 77^ By JANE G. BRUST Battalion Staff Parking fines on the Texas A&M University campus doubled in the as a deterrent to future viola tions. However, the increase does not seem to be effective. Thomas Parsons, director of security and traffic, said 48,540 tick ets were written between Septem ber and December 1979. He said 41,358 tickets were written during the same months of 1980. Parsons said he does not think the City Council considers oil measure The College Station City Council will consider an ordinance on allow ing oil and gas drilling in the city hits at its regular meeting Thurs day night at 7 p.m. in the city hall. Other ordinances to be consi dered are increasing wrecker service fees and health service fees. Also on the agenda is a public bearing concerning rezoning two tracts of land west of and adjacent to F.M. 158 near Highway 30. A 1.186- acre tract would be rezoned indust rial and a 2.246-acre tract rezoned residential. The council will also hold a public bearing on the proposed 1981 Com munity Development Block Grant Application. decrease in tickets is due to the in crease in fines. Instead, he attributes the decrease to a change in ticket writing policy. “Last year we gave two violation notices for unregistered vehicles,” he said. “One was for being unreg istered, one was for being illegally parked.” Now only one ticket is written in such instances, cutting down on the total number of tickets written. Tick ets for parking violations are $10 each; for moving violations, $20 each. Parsons said the fine increase was recommended by the traffic panel comprised of 21 students, staff and faculty. Although the fines have doubled, the revenues have not. Parsons said only $190,125 was collected in the fall and some of that money was paid for tickets written in previous months. “We’ve had some tickets on file for a few years,” he said. The University regulations manu al says that failure to clear tickets could result in the driver being blocked from registration with the University. Six or more tickets in one ‘ year could result in the loss of park ing privileges on campus. Parsons said the ticket revenues fund a reserve, some of which pays for new parking areas. For example, he said the lot being built behind the Zachry Engineering Center cost $1,100,000. “It takes some time to build that big of a reserve, ” he said. In addition to the construction of new parking areas, ticket revenues pay for the maintenance and im provement of existing lots. Eight of the University’s 100 park ing lots utilize electronic gates to re serve spaces for authorized cars. The gates, which open with specific com binations, can cost $5,000 each, Par sons said. He said it is difficult to control parking violations even with the electronic gates because authorized persons give the gate combinations to other people. Parsons sajd he does not foresee installation of electronic gates for all campus lots. Some lots, such as the one behind the Reed McDonald Building, are too large for electronic gates, he said. “I’m not convinced the gates would be feasible there,” he said. That lot faces steady traffic on Spence Street that could easily back up if electronic gates were installed for persons entering the parking area. Parsons said most illegally parked cars are found around central cam pus and the modular dormitories. “Students there have nowhere to park, so they park in staff areas,” he said. Approximately 100 cars are towed each month because of excessive violation notices. Parsons said. He explained that such cars are listed with the department patrolmen. But they must be advised to tow a car before doing so. He said that process takes a lot of time. The University presently has reg istered 22,800 cars with an additional 5,000 registered for night permits. Parsons said. The University pro vides 17,100 parking spaces, includ ing street parking. 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