If you don’t want to walk, bike, drive a car or ride a motorcycle, there is a perfect solution for you: the moped.

The moped – kind of like a motorcycle, but minus the fast-get-up-and-go – makes perfect sense for a college student, or anyone traveling short distances daily. They hardly use any gas, are easy to operate and reasonably affordable.

Right now, UK Parking is looking into parking arrangements for moped users on campus. Many moped owners cannot get the permit for their two-wheeler because they don’t qualify for the motorcycle license, and therefore can’t get a motorcycle permit.

Driving a moped is all about saving money, said UK sophomore Nathan Cruse in a Kernel article last Friday. UK Parking takes a great deal of criticism every year because of the parking situation on campus. It needs to be faster in resolving these problems.

So if you can’t park at the racks because UK Parking will ticket you, and you can’t park in the motorcycle lanes because you don’t really fit the part of a motorcycle, where should you park?

The answer that parking gave was simple: they’re working on it.

Don Thornton, UK’s director of parking and transportation services, said the university’s parking guidelines are currently under review to address mopeds.

For students being ticketed now, it’s only fair that there be an answer now. UK Parking needs to continue diligently working on this problem and come up with an expedient solution.

It’s not fair that moped owners have no option of buying a parking pass and no option of the bike rack. Mopeds are made to get the best of both worlds, and moped riders should have that at UK. Hybrid owners should not be excluded from this conversation any longer.

There’s no definite answer from parking yet. But moped owners, if you want an update, contact UK Parking and ask. E-mail [email protected] or call (859) 257-5757, or toll free (800) 441-0555.