Are you talking about an actual hard-copy file? One that you actually have to manually file in a cabinet, in a folder or something? I'm sorry, but that takes way too much effort for non-recordkeeping-savvy folks like myself. My guess is that most students don't bother to file stuff like this in one place, whether it's on paper or online. I don't, which is why I always have the vague feeling that I'm paying more, but no hard evidence. Good thing we have responsible file-keeping types like you to actually pay attention.

It reminds me of that whole toll roads study they did recently in Massachusetts or somewhere where nobody had any clue what they were paying with their e-pass from day to day, and most people never even thought about where the money was going, because it's just one of those costs that people write off as inevitable and necessary.

Maybe someday you will see the benefits of the extra $12...a more enthusiastic and well paid parking ticket enforcer, perhaps, who will have a parking offender towed from a spot just as you need to park there? Nah, I doubt anything like that would ever happen. Would that it were. Is there any way of knowing, really, how OTAP wisely apportions its revenue? I want visible gains.