Parking in Cambridge

Keeping a car at the Business School parking lot has become increasingly inconvenient. Car owners are subjected to a twenty-minute walk across the river and a possible ambush on the way back. Private lots in Cambridge have limited capacities, so that for many drivers the only alternative to the Business School is parking furtively on "safe" side streets. More room for parking in Cambridge is badly needed.

The University could create spaces for hundreds of cars by converting the Carpenter Visual Arts Center into a garage. No alteration of the Center would be necessary. On the ground level cars would enter and leave by the Prescott Street entrance, and the ramp would provide access to the second level.

Only the name would have to be adjusted slightly--the Carpenthouse Center, perhaps.