Press: NIC Parking Solution Elusive

North Idaho College is in great demand. Because of the recession, student enrollment is up some 600 students. And because there are now far more students with vehicles than there are parking spaces, demand for those precious slices of asphalt and concrete is likely to skyrocket when the fall semester begins in eight days. Ask any student with a car what his or her toughest NIC assignment is, and chances are you’ll get this reply: Finding a parking space at 8:50 a.m. Trigonometry? By comparison, it’s a snap. A solution won’t be easy. When you exist on a virtually landlocked hunk of prime real estate and you’ve got hundreds of staff and faculty, more than 3,000 students and fewer than half that number of parking spaces, you’ve got trouble/ Coeur d’Alene Press editorial. More here .

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Question: How would you solve the ongoing parking problem at North Idaho College?