The parking battle stretches to students vs residents

As students may or may not have noticed by now, there are new bike lanes that are around the perimeter of the campus of CSULB, like on the highly-populated Atherton Street.

There is now no parking to be permitted on the sidewalks, which have been used as parking for many students who didn't want to fight over parking in the lots on campus nor pay the outrageous fee for a parking permit. "No parking at all times" signs are posted in intervals of a few hundred feet all around the sidewalk, but not everyone will notice these signs. If that's the case, they will notice when they are greeted with a parking violation ticket on their car.

Since there is no parking now on the curbs around campus, the students that used to park here may find themselves parking more in the residential neighborhoods near the campus.

This will anger those that actually live there, since this is now combining residential parking and student parking. There is not enough space for both students and residents to fight for parking in such a small area.

There are several 'green' options that these students could consider, such as taking the Long Beach Transit buses, Passport buses, Zipcar, Zimride, carpooling, or even the good ol' bicycle. Such parking battles could be solved with simple solutions.