{"id":351,"date":"2018-01-26T00:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T00:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=351"},"modified":"2018-01-26T19:30:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T19:30:06","slug":"why-are-parking-permits-so-expensive-there-is-no-way-i-could-afford-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/01\/26\/why-are-parking-permits-so-expensive-there-is-no-way-i-could-afford-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are parking permits so expensive?!? There is no way I could afford one."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-358\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AW01262018-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-358\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AW01262018-4-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"Why are parking permits so expensive?!? There is no way I could afford one.\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AW01262018-4-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AW01262018-4.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why are parking permits so expensive?!? There is no way I could afford one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the Wall&#8217;s friends at Parking and Transportation, it&#8217;s mostly two things. The first is lack of space on campus, which creates a lot more demand than supply. The second is more subtle: prices are partly high to encourage people who can to use other ways to get to campus, like the campus bus system, public transit, bikes, or feet&#8211;that makes for a greener campus, a healthier community&#8230;but it also helps with the first issue. The walls at T &amp; P are sympathetic, as is this Wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Wall&#8217;s friends at Parking and Transportation, it&#8217;s mostly two things. The first is lack of space on campus, which creates a lot more demand than supply. The second is more subtle: prices are partly high to encourage people who can to use other ways to get to campus, like the campus bus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/01\/26\/why-are-parking-permits-so-expensive-there-is-no-way-i-could-afford-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why are parking permits so expensive?!? There is no way I could afford one.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-parking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}