Exclaimed student Raul Laurence, after explaining his frustration over the amount of large trucks speeding through parking lot, oblivious to the speed reduction bumps in place to encourage safe and cautious driving.
So far, since the beginning of the Fall term, there have been 66 traffic citations written by security in the parking lots on campus, that's a 600% increase from the total amount of 11 written in the entirety of the previous Spring term.
Marcine Olson, the head of Safety and Loss Prevention, provides a sense of what is going on with the parking lots on campus, and it seems a lack of respect and common courtesy coupled with careless driving and inattentative behavior seem to be the main culprits to LBCC's parking lot woes.
Looking at the serious side of things, to date there has been two car to car incidents, one pedestrian (an employee) hit by a car, one vehicle break in, one vandalized vehicle, one case of menacing a pedestrian with a vehicle, and roughly 3 speeding warnings a day.
Student Jordan Turnstill says "I think if the school were to make part of their big field into more parking, then everything would be a lot nicer."
There has been a work order in place since the beginning of the term to have a lane division with directional arrows painted into the new one way exits to mitigate some of traffic backing up when leaving the parking lot.
The office of Safety and Loss Prevention has been stepping up additional efforts to make educational materials more visible to the student body, but stresses the importance of students to take the initiative to be courteous to one another and slow down to try to make the campus safer for everyone.
To report and incident or to voice additional concerns, please contact Marcine Olson in the office of Safety and Loss Prevention at 541-917-4309.
At a glance:
Who: Average LBCC students
What: Parking lot safety concerns
When: Fall Term
Who to contact: Marcine Olson at 541-917-4309
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