+1, not with TOLL. Friday for AG Champs has always been find your own parking. It is a nightmare particularly because you have parents of 12 year olds who don't think it is "safe" to drop their kid off at swimmer drop off So they drive around hawking for paid spaces and not wanting to walk across campus. |
I literally have the emails from our club for 2024 and 2025 and there were designated lots with links to purchase the parking passes in advance for Friday prelims. |
There are paid lots you can park in, what is so hard? You are an adult, do you really need this much hand holding? |
Yes, but this meet started well before 2024. You said “this is the first time”. It’s the first time in your experience, perhaps, but it’s not the first time. |
I don’t, I’ve been going to meets at UMD 3-4 times a year for the past 3 years. But it’s incorrect to say the meet hosts in past years have not arranged for designated lots with the ability to buy a parking pass ahead of time for Friday prelims. For people new to the meet and unfamiliar with campus it’s a nice to thing to have, given that what kicked this whole argument off is someone asking about parking for Friday. |
But it’s incorrect to say this isn’t the first time they haven’t. |
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🙄 sure. I have actual proof that what people are saying is wrong in terms of how parking has been handled most recently (I’m almost certain about 2023 but don’t have the email) but definitely focus on what they may have done 10 years ago. |
Who cares. Parking is always a PITA at UMD. For Turkey Claus, this meet, etc. Open Champs only had paid parking available on Sunday. Your blaming the host team seems weird. UMD might not have allowed it. That happens often. |
Once again, who cares. Just park and pay. |
Agree not a fan of this site. Also not a fan of the poster who hijacked a thread on being angry that a garage was not reserved for them for Friday. |
Because parking is a detail that the meet host works out with UMD to try and make it less of a disaster? There was a basketball game this past Sunday, that’s why TTG wasn’t available. And what do you know, PAC put out parking information. I don’t care that much, again I am there a ton and familiar with the campus at this point, but people’s gaslighting on how parking usually works for Friday prelims is weird. |
I love when people resort to who cares after they have been providing inaccurate information and get corrected. This is why people shouldn’t ask randoms on DCUM questions (this started with someone asking about parking) because 1/2 the time people here are talking out of their @ss. |
You should create a new post on parking at UMD to express your passion. |
please no |