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gina
Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:03:52 +0000

In reply to Christopher-Titus Mark Vanderwall-Brown.

Christopher and Mark thank you for commenting. You make some good points. The College is more than aware that Parking is a significant issue. This summer PCC introduced a number of measures to help respond to the great increase in enrollment that the college is experiencing. At Rock Creek a free shuttle service provided by The Columbia County Rider, was introduced to and from the Willow Creek Park and Ride. Currently, this shuttle is running with relatively few passengers while the TriMet leaves the Park and Ride overflowing. Help spread the word to your fellow students that the new service is available, FREE to and from the Rock Creek Campus without stops. Future service will be evaluated based on fall term participation. At The Sylvania Campus, overflow parking in the Mt. Park Church using a bus rather than a limited capacity van was introduced. At the Cascade Campus a new free parking location has been introduced. Students primarily enrolled at Cascade or SEC can park at PCC Metro for free and ride the new shuttle to either campus. There is also a Cascade light rail connection.

Students & staff riding the light rail to Cascade can transfer to Tri Met bus 72. Bus 72 leaves every 7 to 12 minutes (day) and stops at Cascades’ front door. The College has increased the number of subsidized student TriMet Select passes from 1,200 to 1,400 for fall 2010. Each pass saves students $94 per term. The College has also added a 5th shuttle route with service to Cascade, Rock Creek and Southeast.

Other measures to help reduce the need to travel and park at the campuses particularly during the busiest times of the year have also been put into place. Now, online textbook and parking permit ordering is available. Please visit the College’s Transportation website for additional information http://www.pcc.edu/parking/.

All of this does not address your specific comment regarding new buildings displacing parking. Every effort will be made to replace displaced parking. The college is working with its local governmental jurisdictions to ensure that we doing everything we can to provide the maximum allowed parking. But parking spaces and parking structures are expensive and not a good use of the land. It is incumbent upon all of us to do whatever we can to use alternative transportation modes, to bike, walk, carpool, use mass transit, trip chain, utilize on-line course options and try other measures to reduce our carbon foot print. The College is committed to doing everything it can to explore the facilitation of these alternatives. As we move forward with implementing the bond measure I hope you will participate in the many opportunities to meet with the architects, project managers, transportation consultants and others, to help work through solutions and preferred options. Your concerns are valid and we could use your good energy as we attempt to balance all of the many needs. The NEW Bond Website will list these opportunities in the GET Involved section. Thanks again for your comments.