Word: parks
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Those who can afford to send their car to school as well as themselves can park at the Business School, Soldiers Field, or Peabody Terrace lots. Approximately 130 undergraduates pay $315 to park at the Business School, says Jeffrey L. Smith of the Harvard Parking Office. Another 30 students park at Soldiers Field and Peabody Terrace, which costs $65 a month for covered parking spaces and $50 a month for spots on the roof, Smith says...
Other students rent parking spots in driveways of Cambridge homes. Christopher J. Farley '88 says he has heard of Cambridge homeowners charging $60-$70 a month for people to park in their driveways. Some driveways are cluttered with four or five cars, Farley says...
Farley says he spent $70 and most of his sophomore year trying to figure a place to park. In his search for a safe spot, Farley accumulated nine tickets. One day he returned to his car to find that police had attached a metal boot to one of his tires for parking in an unauthorized area. Farley had to pay $50 to have the boot removed. He now has a parking sticker...
Neilson says that the car is especially useful because her roommates--a hockey player, a tennis player, and another a soccer player--share it and the expenses. This type of cooperative arrangement is not uncommon. Farley says that when he was paying $40 a month to park at the Botanic Gardens, his roommates helped pay the costs since they used the car as much...
While many undergraduates have problems parking, the situation is, in some ways, worse for graduate students. Any undergraduate who has the money can park in a Harvard-owned lot. Graduate students go through a lottery at registration to determine who gets parking, because most of them live in the area north of the Yard where parking lots such as the Everett St. and Broadway garages are crowded, Smith says...