UTAR/KTAR parking woes.

I had to blog about something that some of us are all not aware of. It's true that there are limited spaces provided in the campus as well as around the campus. Those legal parking slots are as well, limited. I came by a blog link which have wrote about what happened one year ago. Now it's happening once again. CLICK HERE for link.

For 1 year I have studied at UTAR and I have not heard of such happenings. Until the day my friend's car's tires got inflated. Not once, but twice! At different areas. First time one tyre got deflated and next round, 2 tires! (As shown in picture below - after the tires were removed). I wonder whether those residence at Taman Bunga Raya (TBR) realized that every year the student intakes of UTAR and KTAR increases as well as the number of students that drives.



This banner was hung up recently at TBR regarding us parking as we like around the neighbour-hood. This banner says that we students, as well as those visitors are not to park our vehicles wherever we like. If we want to park, it's park at our own risk. We take responsibility for whatever risk we face.

Where are we to park if we can't park inside the campus or at TBR? Furthermore, some may get the chance to park in the campus this semester but not the next. Can someone tell me what can we do?


My friend's car's tires which got punctured. Notice the Viva at the back has it's tires punctured as well. That day only 3 cars got their tires punctured. All because the residence don't like us parking at his compound? It's not like we were blocking him or what. Yet the car that is not not parking around the house compound have nothing wrong. I wonder what is in the minds of these people. They will remove the cap and use pebbles to spoil the pin head to let the air out.

I came across that blog and I realized that I should voice out my views. The residence of TBR have also put up a banner telling the students of KTAR not to park around their housing areas. If we could enter the campus compound, we would not even want to park at TBR and walk into the campus! Those sabotage happened a year ago and now history is repeating itself.

Yes, we do study at KTAR/UTAR but we can't do anything if we are not given parking stickers to enter the campus to park. So we park around TBR. It does not matter whether it's yellow line, white line or none, as long as we get to park, we are satisfied. And as long as we know that we are not obstructing anybody or anything. Though we know the risk of getting summons. But having our tires punctured is a little too much. I can say this is the works of uncivilized people.

I don't meant to be rude but I feel that this has gone a little too far. Puncturing our vehicle tires will not prevent us from parking around TBR as we are not allowed to enter the campus without a parking sticker. It's does not mean that we study at UTAR/KTAR we have to park in the legalized parking spot or in the campus.


The blog i came upon has already stated most of what I had to say. It's really impractical for them to just puncture our vehicle tires as the road does not belongs to them, we are not blocking anyone, and there are limited parking spaces provided. Could they just be more civilised and issue a warning or notice instead of puncturing tires?! We are not to park in the campus without a valid parking sticker and now we are not allowed to park around TBR? Where are we supposed to park then?

30th June 2010

The whole row of vehicles that parked at this alley has it's tires punctured. Not one tyre but 2! Another of my friend's car has his tires punctured as well.

Deflated tyre of one of the cars that parked in that alley.

Again, I don't meant to be rude but it's a fact that this is an act of childishness and the works of uncivilised human beings. Are they that free to do this kind of stuff? Too free I guess. Some even purposely calls the DBKL to come and issue summons.


Maybe it would be best for us not to drive. Too much vehicles around! But we need our vehicles to travel for assignments as well as to travel from far places to school. We should need more parking spaces in campus.


Taken from the blog itself : It is not that we don't want to park inside our campus, but we don't manage to get the UTAR parking sticker!! The chances are limited and yet, DSA distributed less parking lots compared to last trimester!!

I hope this will enlighten some people put there to do something. It might not be a big change but at least, I hope to see something. I'm just voicing out my views regarding this matter. No harm there. So I urge everyone of you out there, if you do stumble upon this post, do drop me a comment or two if you have anything to say. Don't be afraid to voice out.

Cheers :)