Comments on: Stanford’s Parking Pricing Structure

By: Jeremy H

Jeremy H — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:32:08 +0000

Stanford’s parking policy isn’t really geared towards students. Nearly all undergraduates live on campus, and the majority of graduate students live in University housing. And a good chunk of those living off-campus live close to campus. This leaves just a tiny amount of long distance commuters. (The graduate students actually voted against providing a $100/year caltrain pass to all grad students.) The real target of parking policy is Stanford staff, and with them it makes a little more sense. All employees get a free caltrain pass, as well as VTA bus pass. They also get paid the cost of a ‘C’ permit to not have a parking permit. Thus, for staff, it is hard to do better than caltrain from a cost perspective.

By: David Ulevitch

David Ulevitch — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:40:40 +0000

Shit, you are so freakin’ smart.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:06:13 +0000

You should write a book of just common sense solutions to all the worlds problems. Seriously.

By: the matador

the matador — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:07:29 +0000

this analysis is like a third of what i do at work, except replace driving or cal-training with “whether or not i should go to the dr.” times 8 million people.