By Cristopher Rees
cristopher@newsroom.byu.edu
BYU traffic police are guiding drivers onto the Internet highway.
With an average 30,000 to 35,000 parking tickets given on campus each year, BYU hopes a new Web site will stop violators.
'We want to provide people with information before they come to campus so they don't get a ticket,' said Sgt. Russ Fuller, from the Traffic/Parking Division at BYU.
The new Web site allows students, faculty and visitors to know how and where they can park legally on campus, Fuller said.
'Its not just for students,' Fuller said. 'Its for everybody coming to campus.'
Fuller said the new Web site will let people access parking information quicker and easier in the comfort of their own homes.
'I'm trying to reduce frustration,' Fuller said. 'We want to make their parking experience a lot more pleasant.'
The new site contains a map of school and illustrates the different parking stalls by color, Fuller said.
The Web site will also be updated regularly to include information on parking during holidays, Sundays and sporting events, he said.
Along with how to register a car, the site instructs students on how to register and where to park a bicycle, Fuller said.
'In the next three weeks we impound tons of bicycles,' he said. 'I just don't want to do that.'
The new site will also be valuable to disabled persons, said John Call, coordinator for Services for Students with Disabilities.
Call said the site can give disabled citizens a chance to see where disability parking is or where they could be dropped off.
Peggy Robinson, mother of a sophomore from Salt Lake City, said she had no idea where to park on campus.
'I was lost,' Robinson said. 'If I didn't have my daughter here, I wouldn't know where to park.'
Her daughter, Susan Robinson, 18, a sophomore with an open major from Salt Lake City, said she, too, was confused as a freshman.
'I had to just walk around school and learn how to park,' she said.
Amber Fansworth, 18, a freshman majoring in education from Mesa, Ariz., said she is new to campus and could use some help finding parking.
'I'm clueless,' Farnsworth said. 'I know there are signs. I hope I see one of those signs.'
The new site can be accessed at www.byu.edu/police.