Last Saturday morning, when playing basketball, Chan Fai tell me that APIIT gonna have a new parking area. I went home and check about it because college gonna start on the following week. When I went in to APIIT webspace, I saw this.
I clicked the link below this annoucement, and a PDF file was loaded. There's a schedule of Shuttle Service to Parking Lot at Phase 3 (Opposite Maxis) at the first page of the PDF file, and following with a letter with this content.
At first I don't really care, because I don't park at the roadside.
On Monday, the first day college start, my class starts at 8.45am, so I went early, and my usual parking area still got quite many parking. Later on, some of my classmates that came late, said they park at the new parking area because the usual parking area was full. So I guess I can get parking as long as I come early to college.
Therefore, on the next day, my class starts at 9.30am, but I purposely wake up early and went to APIIT early to get parking. Who knows, when I want to enter the car park, the security guard chase me away because I'm a APIIT student. I was like, WTF? Nevermind, I remember the map of the new parking area, and I drive to the new parking area. On the way to the car park I saw some of my classmates walking to APIIT main campus, and I was wondering why they walk when there is shuttle service. When I reach the new parking area, once again I was like WTF? The condition of the parking area is totally... sucks. The announcement in the webspace stated that there is 300 ~ 400 parking lot, but in fact, I guess is around 200 ~ 300, and more than half of the parking lots are owned by Iris company. After I parked my car, I stand out the car park and wait for the shuttle service. I waited there for more than 15 minutes and the shuttle bus still not yet arrive(probably that's the reason why my classmate choose to walk). I was expecting those kind of shuttle bus like those going to LRT Station and Vista, but sadly, the shuttle service here is just a van, which can fit 12 people (15 people maybe?). From the new parking area to APIIT main campus is like 1.5km distance. If walk, I guess need around 20 minutes. The shuttle van only used less than 3 minutes to reach, and I don't get why I waited for more than 15 minutes and the van didn't arrive.
On Monday, the first day college start, my class starts at 8.45am, so I went early, and my usual parking area still got quite many parking. Later on, some of my classmates that came late, said they park at the new parking area because the usual parking area was full. So I guess I can get parking as long as I come early to college.
Therefore, on the next day, my class starts at 9.30am, but I purposely wake up early and went to APIIT early to get parking. Who knows, when I want to enter the car park, the security guard chase me away because I'm a APIIT student. I was like, WTF? Nevermind, I remember the map of the new parking area, and I drive to the new parking area. On the way to the car park I saw some of my classmates walking to APIIT main campus, and I was wondering why they walk when there is shuttle service. When I reach the new parking area, once again I was like WTF? The condition of the parking area is totally... sucks. The announcement in the webspace stated that there is 300 ~ 400 parking lot, but in fact, I guess is around 200 ~ 300, and more than half of the parking lots are owned by Iris company. After I parked my car, I stand out the car park and wait for the shuttle service. I waited there for more than 15 minutes and the shuttle bus still not yet arrive(probably that's the reason why my classmate choose to walk). I was expecting those kind of shuttle bus like those going to LRT Station and Vista, but sadly, the shuttle service here is just a van, which can fit 12 people (15 people maybe?). From the new parking area to APIIT main campus is like 1.5km distance. If walk, I guess need around 20 minutes. The shuttle van only used less than 3 minutes to reach, and I don't get why I waited for more than 15 minutes and the van didn't arrive.
I bet most of APIIT students who drive to college also feel the unconvinience. Many people had been complaining. I also sent feedback to APIIT and I haven't get any reply yet. Some people created a facebook group called Apiit Car Park Tragedy lu, and I also joined it. Many students also blog about it in their blog. These are the few blogs that I saw. Blog 1 Blog 2. In the Blog 2, there's even an e-Petition for people to sign up for [Standing Up for Better Car Park]. Hope TPM will make some actions soon to solve this problem.
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