Parking fees drive Deakin staff, students mad
Posted in Life on July 28th, 2011 by steve
“Victoria’s Deakin University is facing a revolt from students and staff over plans to hike parking fees next year by in some cases more than three times. Under the plans announced to staff late on Friday last week, the annual cost of an allocated reserved parking space at the outer suburban Burwood campus in Melbourne would next year jump from $461.50 to $1500 …” (more)
[Andrew Trounson, The Australian, 28 July]
“Plans have been drawn up to tackle chronic car parking problems in housing estates adjacent to the University of Limerick in Castletroy …” (
“Finding a parking space around Queen’s is a nightmare. Students who have saved and paid to learn the valuable skill to drive, and paid to insure and tax their cars, are being forced to abandon them in their driveways because it is simply impossible to find a space to park around Queen’s …” (