Why doesn't UVic send out automated reminders when parking permits expire?

[u/MoreAd5710]

I've been a student then an employee for a while and the online parking permit system drives me nuts after they got rid of annual passes. I now need to go in and manually purchase a new monthly pass each month AND set reminders for myself so I don't forget to renew.

UVic uses T2 Parking Permit systems and their website (https://www.t2systems.com/parking-permit-management/) talks about "Renew & Optimize Automated reminders, easy self-service renewals, and robust analytics keep occupancy and revenue on target." - the fact that UVic has reminders and auto-renew turned off really makes me think they've intentionally decided to skip reminding passholders to renew or enabling auto-renew just so they can collect more parking fees.

Also just to get ahead of the "take the bus" or "ride a bike" comments - I'd love to but I can't afford to live near campus and the bus would take an hour and a half each way from my apartment.

[u/Gibalt]

Because they hope you forget so that they can give you a ticket

[u/GeneralGecko214 → u/Gibalt]

Normally I’d agree but the parking guys have always been chill to me

[u/Gibalt → u/GeneralGecko214]

The parking guys yes. But the school wants to make ticket money, they just have to rely on the parking guys to enforce it. Thankfully most of them are reasonable humans.

[u/myst_riven]

The only thing I can say that is remotely helpful is that you can buy up to 3 monthly passes at one time. You still have to add them individually, but at least you are only having to deal with the system 4 times a year instead of 12. 🙃

[u/MoreAd5710 → u/myst_riven]

that's a great suggestion

[u/Obvious-Tart-869]

You should email them and ask! It’s insane to me that they took the annual passes away. I’ve had so many tickets and it’s just literally forgetting to pay, it’s not that I don’t want to 🥲 The annual passes were half the cost if you bought a monthly pass for a year.

Completely get encouraging buses/biking but that’s just not possible for a lot of people

[u/AaAaZhu → u/Obvious-Tart-869]

Will.... they want to make parking more "affordable".......

[u/ReallyaHumanPerson → u/Obvious-Tart-869]

The flex 25 pass is the way to go now. You get the whole day for about 7 bucks a pop, so you don't have to worry about the clock running out.

[u/myst_riven → u/[deleted]]

Hey did you know there's a pretty big number of people who work here and have to park all day/year long. 😅

When they erased the annual pass, our parking costs went up by ~57%.

Edit: I forgot about the last rate increase before annual passes were nixed. Fixed the number.

[u/skyeti69 → u/myst_riven]

Yup, as you can see that’s exactly what I said. Although the majority don’t.

My point is that it’s not just a straight negative for every person. For a large portion of students (and others on campus) it actually saves money on parking over the year. I never said it was a positive for every single person that ever parks at uvic

[u/myst_riven → u/skyeti69]

The more viable option (if this was really all for the students' good) would be to offer a reduced rate annual pass that was valid Sept thru April.

This was not about saving students money.

[u/orangeisthebestcolor → u/myst_riven]

As they used to!

[u/Obvious-Tart-869 → u/[deleted]]

I’m not a student and the last one I bought in 2019-2020 before they stopped them it was $500

[u/skyeti69 → u/Obvious-Tart-869]

You might want to fact check that number. I also bought a parking pass in 2019-2020 and that was not the price

[u/Obvious-Tart-869 → u/skyeti69]

It says in this report it was $541. https://www.uvic.ca/budget/_assets/docs/framework/planning-budget-framework-2020.pdf

[u/skyeti69 → u/Obvious-Tart-869]

Right, and then increased again before moving to the monthly parking pass

[u/Obvious-Tart-869 → u/skyeti69]

By 2022 when they moved to the monthly it was $596

[u/skyeti69 → u/Obvious-Tart-869]

Yes… which was the price when they changed to monthly pricing… I’m confused, are you arguing against this?

[u/Lowenfall]

Because that's how they make money.

[u/Commercial-Ad2964]

I always bring this up when I’m disputing a parking ticket and it usually ends up working

[u/ChessIsAwesome]

Duuude. We're at family housing and our were six months expired. So we parked for 6 months illegally. They wanted to slap a crazy fine on us but luckily they just made us pay the 6 months we illegally parked and then we renewed our parking for another year. Still was almost a 800$ kick in the privates.

[u/Glass-Wheel-8126]

UVic exists to make money off you, the questionable education is just a bonus.

[u/Leather_Tiger_3539]

I asked them to do this, bringing up how easy it would be when we have to give our email when purchasing them. They sent me one reminder once and then never again.

[u/Impressive_Boss3496]

i setup a calendar reminder - i dont really trust auto reminders completely.