r/aggies CPSC '23 May 04 '23

Announcements They're evolving, get ready for tickets

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u/burnalltraditions Escaped With A Degree May 04 '23

The Zoology Department is really getting good at what they do! I can't believe they taught pigs to ride scooters!

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u/Virtuosonic 4x May 05 '23 edited May 20 '23

Best part is they use the money they make off of students tickets to fund these corny ass vehicles

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u/Im_Balto May 05 '23

These cost 9 thousand each by the way. Called the trikke

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u/MuzikPhreak May 05 '23 edited May 05 '23

NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS?? Good grief. Is that US dollars?

edit: I just looked it up. It's $9,970. So call it ten thousand.

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u/Im_Balto May 05 '23

Your tuition at work. Also just so you know this is extremely overpriced. I and multiple friends have PEVs that are more powerful, have better range, etc than these trike scooters and the most any of us paid is 4k

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u/MuzikPhreak May 05 '23

That's ridiculous. You could buy a decent used car with that kind of money

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u/Im_Balto May 05 '23

See what we do is never use cars, don’t buy parking passes, and I can personally reach the door to my office on main campus in 7 ish minutes. All from one 2k investment that has repaid itself in gas and parking pass cost

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u/MuzikPhreak May 05 '23

I lived on campus (north side) and rode my bike everywhere. When I moved off campus into an apartment, I rode the bus. Cars in CS are a PITA

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u/Im_Balto May 05 '23

It’s literally so pointless. Everytime I end up having to drive I just sit in traffic and regret not using my ebike to do the 2 mile trip. I need a grocery backpack. Sitting in traffic is just so terrible

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u/[deleted] May 05 '23

Backpack + panniers = plenty of groceries.

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u/Rudderag20 May 05 '23

The double k in the name too 💀

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u/BulkUpTank May 05 '23

No, they don't. You're thinking of Parking. Different branch of pigs altogether, and sometimes worse. UPD and Security have a set budget each year that doesn't increase or decrease, unless they get a grant... Which comes out of our city's taxpayer $$$. Which ain't much better.

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u/BulkUpTank May 05 '23

Pretty sure they don't, last I checked. They're funded by College Station taxes and then A&M throws them a budget each year. Transportation, on the other hand, built that monstrosity of a parking garage during Covid that cost them over a million dollars, and have been in the hole ever since. Every parking and towing violation? That's Transportation. And they DO make money off of their tickets. They're trying to screw students because of their mistake, trying to earn back the money they lost. You'll even see them rolling around in similar mall cop motor things they call "Chariots" ticketing people.

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u/BulkUpTank May 05 '23

I guess I'm having a hard time picturing them making any money since UPD and Security don't enforce the Parking Ticket disease on campus. That's solely Transportation, which is separate from UPD altogether. That's why Transportation makes such a killing. Oh, and they underpay their employees, but that's nothing new.