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Cars in lot 62 near the Dole Human Development Center last year. This year, the lot became a red-permit only lot
Parking holds open forum, but students don't show
CALE JOHNSON
@KansanNews
Yellow parking, bird poop and suggestions for a mobile app were the biggest topics of discussion at a KU Parking open forum Tuesday. But students — some of whom have been vocal on social media about frustrations with Parking — didn't attend the forum.
The forum, which was held at the Union, allowed members
of the KU community to voice their concerns over parking related issues.
A main concern for students has been changes in yellow-spot parking, which Hultine said is an awareness issue.
"A lot of students are under the impression that if lot 90, the parking lot by the rec center, is full there is nowhere else to park, which isn't the case," said Hultine. "We need to do a better job of relaying the information about additional parking lots besides 90."
Hultine said KU Parking has made an effort with its Twitter feed to help alleviate the traffic and reduce the time it takes to find a parking spot. The Parking Department tweets out updates about which lots are filling up. However, Hultine was less than optimistic about how well this was working and how well it could potentially work.
"We don't have a good enough following for this to be an ideal way for us to spread
real time info to people trying to park." Hultine said.
Betty Alderson, a Lawrence resident who crosses campus to commute, suggested Parking create a mobile app that provides info on how many spots were available in various lots would work wonders to the current situation.
Hultine agreed and said that KU parking will look into potentially making such an app a reality.
Gary Samuelson, a circulation business office manager for KU Libraries said there has been another parking related problem as well: pigeons have begun to stand on cars and leave feces on the floor of the Mississippi Street parking garage.
Hultine said there is a special power wash machine that will be used to clean the parking garage in the near future. She went on to say that KU Parking has been aware of the issue, but has been unable to take any
effective action because the street cleaning machine that is typically used would not fit in the parking garage when they attempted to clean it.
The KU Parking Commission will hold another public meeting during spring semester at a date to be determined.
—Edited by Maddie Farber
Food trucks will be on campus on Tuesdays and Thursdays
MCKENNA HARFORD @McKennaHarford
Local food trucks will now be curbing student cravings on Tuesdays and Thursdays from
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in lot 90 by the Ambler Student Recreation Center, and lot 54 across from the Burge Union on Irving Hill Road.
The Fork To Fender food truck collective — which in
cludes Wilma's, the Purple Carrot, Drasko's, and Torched Goodness — partnered with KU Dining to serve campus twice a week until Thanksgiving, weather permitting.
Alecia Stultz, KU Dining as-
track record with that, and bring in some community involvement on campus."
In the future, the food trucks and Dining will work on increasing awareness so that more people could take advantage of the trucks, Stultz said.
"We want it to be successful for us and for the food truck operators themselves," she said.
The program is in a trial period right now, but if it's pop-
sistant director, said Dining the campus community was interested in having food truck dining options, so working with already established food trucks was a good opportunity.
ular, KU Dining will consider starting the program back up in the spring when the weather is warmer, Stultz said.
"We want to gauge the campus community and find out if once these big [construction] projects die down a little bit, if this is another aspect of our business that we would want to get into," Stultz said.
"Unfortunately, right now with all of the other projects going around campus, we weren't in a perspective to manage that type of business," Stultz said. "So we partnered with people who know how to do that and have a proven
- Edited by Rebecca Dowd
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Torched Goodness, a truck that specializes in creme brulee, will be one of the trucks making appearances at Lot 90 every Tuesday and Thursday.
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