Carpooling mooted to solve parking woes

A trailer stuck between two illegally parked cars causes massive jam on Jalan Taylor's

Students are encouraged to carpool to ease the problem of inadequate parking spots at Taylor’s Lakeside Campus.

“Students have to cultivate the culture of carpooling,” COO of Taylor’s Education Group Facilities Management Sheena Angelina said.

She added that it would be impossible to cater one parking space to each of the 10,000 students in Taylor’s.

However, Taylorian Alia Ali said it was difficult for students to carpool.

“Students live at different places and have different timetables so it is not easy for us to carpool as much as we would like to,” she said.

Taylor’s University provides 2000 parking spots for students (plus an additional 500 spots for staff), at a ratio of one parking spot per five students, which, according to Sheena, is the most among other private institutions.

However, this does not appear to be enough as finding an empty parking place has been a major problem since the opening of the campus.

This problem has only been escalating since the Zone G parking lot was recently restricted to staff only.

Communication student Raidatul Husna said, “It is very frustrating to not be able to park at Zone G. Sometimes while I am driving around campus trying to find a parking spot, I can see empty parking spaces there.”

Sheena said there would be empty parking spots at Zone G throughout the day because staff could have either gone out for appointments or come in at later times.

Nowadays, students have been spotted parking their cars along the side of the road as a last resort.

Earlier this month, a massive traffic jam occurred inside the campus area because a construction lorry was trapped between two cars parked at both sides of the road near Taylor’s exit.

(By Nurul Ain Jamaluddin)