By Jennifer Parli

As of Sept. 18, more than 200 students had received parking tickets in the newly 24-hour-controlled E-Lot located behind the W.T. Young Library across from Pennsylvania Avenue. Some of these students blame a misleading flyer posted in several Greek dormitories for their tickets.

The flyer reminded students to move their cars from K-Lot on gamedays by 9 a.m., but told them they could park in any E-Lot after 3:30 p.m. except for the C2 lot located on University Drive, south of E. S. Good Barn. The flyer did not say that the E-Lot behind the library was controlled 24 hours.

UK Parking and Transportation, which did not approve the flyer and was not aware of it during the changes, believes whoever posted the flyers had good intentions but failed to check the Web site first about regulations, said Chrissie Balding Tune, marketing and promotions specialist for UK PTS.

Don Thornton, director of UK Parking and Transportation, said it was not their intention to mislead anybody, and that people need to pay more attention to parking signs. If people paid more attention to signs, he said, it would help eliminate some students from getting a ticket since parking is subject to change, particularly during football games.

“It was unfortunate timing when we changed the signs and obviously at the time we did not know about the misleading flyer that was out there,” Tune said.

Thornton said one of the reasons the E-Lot was changed to 24-hour control was to meet the accommodations of the library’s needs since they remain open during football games.

“We are going to take a look at this lot, to see if this is the way the E-Lot needs to be controlled,” Thornton said.

Tune said she sent an e-mail to the Residence Life listserv and Greek organizations’ presidents informing and reminding them of the changes during the football games. The e-mail also said to disregard any flyers that did not have the Parking and Transportation Services logo. She also said she contacted the Parent Association, a radio station at 1700 AM.

Other ways to find parking information and changes include the parking Web site (http://www.uky.edu/Parking/) where important event and non-event parking is listed, Twitter and E-News, an e-mail newsletter.

UK PTS is currently investigating the flyer incident and hopes to find out who posted the flyers, Tune said.