Alternative Forms of Transportaion

Ryan and Anna on the bike!

At UAB and probably every other college campus parking passes are a must. At good Ole' Samford, your parking pass showed not only where you could park, but also where you lived. The good days of having a purple sticker when you were a freshman, green if you lived in "The woods", Yellow if you lived on "West Campus"(gotta love the chi o house), and finally blue if you were a commuter. I will have to say that in my four years at Samford I had all four colors.

Well at UAB things are not as color friendly. They have all these numbers that correspond to different lots, but there are several lots with the same number. Also, the map that shows all of these same numbered lots is not color coded like SU. Thank goodness I am a grad student and not a new scared freshman who has no idea where to go. Along with the certain non-color coded lots that we have to park in, we also have to pay for a pass to do so. It is rather expensive to park at UAB compared with SU, but I have to say tickets are not as expensive. I will always remember my semester at Samford when i collected a personal best of $250 worth of parking tickets. I'm pretty sure Campus Safety had a stellar Christmas party on me that year.

Anyway all of this to say, the way to go is to help the environment. Yeah at UAB they give you incentives to "Go Green". For our good friend Ryan, pictured above, he chose the bike route. He basically can park anywhere (on the grass and what not) and he doesn't have to buy a parking pass. The only downfall, yeah when it rains its kinda a sad day for him. So for now, we hope for sunny days and the occasional ride to our cars on the back of Ryan's YEllOW BIKE!

Check that bike out! Now who would not want to ride that?