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Illinois State University has decided on a new parking plan for future football and basketball games at Redbird Arena due to the numerous complaints from the residents of Adelaide Street regarding the fans' cars parked along their street, fan behavior, littering and alcohol consumption. Suggested ideas included constructing a new parking building, an on-campus trolley system, and using parking lots across campus instead of overflowing onto Adelaide Street. Through consideration, we decided to combine the two latter ideas: a trolley system will transport fans from several of the previously mentioned parking lots.

The new system allows audience members to park anywhere on campus, walk to any one of the depicted stops, and take one of the six trolleys. Two hours prior to the start of the sporting event, the trolleys will begin their circulation. Each stop will be visited by a trolley every fifteen minutes. The trolley will continue to run throughout the game and finish their course an hour after the game ends.

Licensed drivers should note this new update as they are responsible for their vehicle and parking. Students should receive some information of the change in their drivers’ education courses. In order to inform pedestrians, there will be signs and notices posted all over campus and on some of the streets on which parking may "overflow" onto. This change in our parking system will be broadcast on local radios and printed in the newspaper. Further reminder of the alteration will be printed on the back of tickets.

Our new system will be enforced with police control and ticketing. Fans' cars parked on residential streets or outside of campus will be ticketed. Attendees of the events will be presumed to know the new program. In order to evaluate our change, questions and comments will be taken and answered through the following communication methods:

Email: pjdeter@ilstu.edu

Phone: (309)-438-5111

Address:

Campus Box 2660

College at Delaine

Normal, IL 61790-2660