Parking committee?

[Karthik Padmanabhan]

We discussed the parking issue last Sunday and most of us felt that we should consider alternate parking arrangements outside IIT (e.g. CLRI, Guindy Park etc). 

I differed a little on that and felt that if we optimally use the space inside IIT, we should be able to accommodate the vehicles coming in. My take was that there are 6-7 different "parking lots" which could be considered inside IIT which does not affect the race route:

1) KV school grounds

2) Vanavani school grounds (not sure if that's possible)

3) Bonn avenue stretch until Vanavani (one side of the road)

4) Main gate parking 

5) Around OAT

6) Admin building car park

7) Alumni Ave

8) Any other reasonably large lane?

None of these are on the race route. If we can identify how many cars/ bikes can be parked across these locations, mark out parking lots clearly, designate volunteers to each of them, map out a plan for race day parking, we should still be able to handle this without having to go outside IIT for parking. 

Having said that, this is just my guess, and we have to really assess if IIT can accommodate this and if we should go to CLRI/ Guindy Park/ AU

Can we have a small team which could look into this, evaluate whether the parking inside IIT is sufficient or not and then propose a plan for parking logistics?

Any volunteers?

Thanks,

Karthik

[Preeti Aghalayam]

I asked around a little (a little, not extensively). KV ground can accommodate around 200 cars. We can use the roads; and admin building and so forth. But these don't afford too many more spots. I mean, if we think 1000 cars will show up, we are in trouble, if its about half of that, then we are OK within IIT. Vanavani doesn't have much parking, other suggestions are good. 

Bala had a perpendicular take on this parking matter, which I don't disagree with on principle. Except that I guess we cannot guarantee that every one of the runners we get will be sensible enough to recognise the funda behind it. Like if they insist on driving all over the place or yelling and screaming, then it just ruins everything (for them and us) on race day. So a bit worried about that. I mean, even with, all the warnings regarding parking that we will give in the emails leading up to the event. 

A 'committee' to look into parking sounds good! I am late on enough number of things right now that you dont want me on that committee. :-) I think Sachin Pandey or someone else within the campus should be able to help out with that. 

Regs

Preeti

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[Krishna Kumar]

suggezt have surya in this team.  maybe even lead it. 

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[Venkat]

My one cent to this. We should also start sending feelers closer to the race to all the registered participants and request them to car pool. Tell them, IIT is a green belt. Let's leave as less carbon footprint as possible. Probably that will help reduce the number of cars to some extent at least. This has to be a sustained news letter to all runners with all " dos and donts " 

Venkat Rangan

Co-Founder &  CEO

Market Simplified Inc.

www.marketsimplified.com

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[Hari]

Agree with Venkat. Great thought. There must be an effort from our end to get this Green Message across to the participants.

 

Hari

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