Parking!

[AlphaFrog]

Originally posted by DeltAlum

I probably paid more in parking tickets than I did tuition when I was in college.

Ditto.

When I lived at the house it wasn't an issue, parking was free in our lot.

This past year I parked at meters alot because I had a spot at a local church ($20/year permit)...but that was on one side of the campus and my classes were on the other.

I will never make the mistake of buying a parking pass through the school again...too expensive and you can never find a spot anyway...

[ASTLuv21]

Parking at my University is free due to the fact it is a commutter school but we do have some meter parking which is for only 40 min. The only time parking is really a hassle is during the first two weeks of the new semesters in fall and winter. Also, parking is a bitch in the winter because once it snows, you can't find the lines and people park all screwy, sometimes even blocking people in. Otherwise, parking isn't a hassle.

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

Where do you park? I park in the University parking lots.

How far away is it? Thankfully at Rio it's basically a commuter school, so plenty of parking. I normally have to walk about 3-5 minutes for my longer treks.

How much do you pay for parking? $50 for an entire school year. You get your pass from the campus police and it is charged on your school account.

Is parking an issue at your school? Only for the Educational Department, it sucks. They only have around 10 open spots in front of the building, otherwise you have to walk across one of the main roads after you get a spot.

[mommag2]

At NAU I live in family housing on campus so I park right next to my apartment and usually thats were my car stays. I walk to class oor I leave my apartment about a 1/2hr before my class is supposed to start so I can ride the bus to class. The wait for the bust is usually a 20min. wait for a 5minute ride.

Parking permits fees are usually based on what type of permit you are going to get . I pay $56 a semester for a Residence hall parking sticker, and I am only allowed to park in my designated area, so if I want to drive to the student union and get some food I have to put money into a parking meter so I won't get a ticket for parking in a non-designated area. Ticket fees for that offense are between $10-50 dollars.

The university houses about 7000 students and every year parking services oversell permits by about a couple of hundred. THe parking lots are not large and there are no parking garages on campus. Ifsomeone finds a space close to their dorm the car usually doesn't leave that space, because if it does bam there goes the space. When you come back the space is taken and it will take another 15mins to find another one. I've seen people cruise the parking lot waiting for someone to leave just so they can get a space.

If I wanted to park in all the commuter lots or all residence hall lots I would have to spend about $500 dollars per yr (I believe that's right) to have that "PRIVILEGE" , which is not one that I want to pay to have.

There are employee lots where students can park in if they have a night class. Parking in those lots doesn't start until 5pm and if the parking nazi's are doing rounds and find a student parking in that spot and the parking nazi's watch's reads 4:59 you will be ticketed.

It get's worse when the university has events like the career fair because then whole parking lots will be closed and people that park in those lots will park in the commuter lots or in metered parking lots using spaces that need to be used for commuter students.

It's a big mess and it doesn't seem like the problem will be solved anytime soon.

*Sorry about the use of the word nazi, it's just the way that we describe parking personnel here at NAU, because it alway's seems like they are just looking to give someone a ticket for the smallest thing. If I offend....I'm sorry in advance.

[Kevin]

Nice.

Sounds pretty familiar though. I was glad that I could park at the fraternity house and ride my bike in to class.

[Tom Earp]

AAAAAAAh, an other reason to go to smaller Colleges in smaller towns!

Use to not have Meters on campus, but alas, that has been history for a long time now, the almighty $$!

Most of the Greek houses except the Tri-Sigma and ADG are across from Campus!

[PM_Mama00]

Originally posted by Tom Earp
AAAAAAAh, an other reason to go to smaller Colleges in smaller towns!

Not necessarily. U of M-Dearborn is a small, all-commuter campus. They opened a new building which houses the majority of the students' programs. Add those students, plus students from the other programs who want to park by there because the University Center is there, plus all the extra students they let in when they opened that building.... all that equals up to driving around for 40 minutes waiting for a spot because there are about 20 other cars looking for spots too. We don't pay for parking tho thank god. I think it's ridiculous that some commuter campuses you have to pay!

[mu_agd]

parking on my campus was a pretty big problem.

freshmen and sophomores that live on campus were supposed to keep there cars down in this holding lot during the week and then could bring it on all weekend and after a certain time during the week. freshmen year i usually kept mine at my cousins house off campus or in the lot and sophomore year i usually kept it at my friends fraternity house. although by keeping it at his house, he felt it gave him free reign to use it and i usually saw it all over the place! when i moved into an apartment junior and senior year there were tons of spaces in our complex. but finding a spot to park on campus or uptown was not the easiest. the put a parking garage uptown before my senior year so that made things a bit easier.

[KSigkid]

Parking was always a problem at Boston U., particularly when the school started putting up more buildings and taking away parking lots. There's only so much room to expand in Boston.

Senior year, parking wasn't guaranteed. YOu could pay for a spot, that didn't mean you'd get one. Not many students drove, but still it was a hassle for those that did.

[aphibeach]

Where do you park? in front of my townhouse.....we're not allowed to have sorority housing where i live and the school prides itself on having 85% of it's students living off campus so we don't have floors of dorms either. but i live outside the mile radius (which determines if you can get a sticker) so i can drive to campus

How far away is it? what my parking spot on campus? i can park where ever i feel like with my pretty blue sticker

How much do you pay for parking? $172

Is parking an issue at your school? yes very much so. since so many students commute, it's obviously a problem but the real problem is that the school is busting at the seams and they don't seem to understand the need for a parking deck. the campus still owns a lot of property which is still woods but they rather focus on more important needs.....like the 2 murders that happened within 1 month due to negligence of the admissions people (2 words, background check)

but then again, i go to school in a city right on the beach so Wilmington in general has parking/traffic problems

[bluefish81]

When I was an undergrad, where I parked depending on what year I was in the house. Our spots in the lot (like 20) are given out based on a point system. You earn points from holding different offices, GPA, campus stuff, etc. Once those spots are filled we generally had about two options available - park on the street and have to move your car daily or get a ticket. They used to be $5, now they're like $15. Or you could rent a spot in a gravel lot near our house from a local slumlord. When I rented from him it only cost $70/semester. Now he apparently requires that you rent for an entire year and it costs somewhere between $250-$300.
And like a lot of schools, parking can be an issue, that's why the ticketers where called "Parking Nazis."

[Sister Havana]

Parking at IU is a big problem. You basically can't park anywhere on campus from 7am-5pm unless you are a grad student or faculty member. All the Greek houses have parking lots but I have no idea how many spots each one has. The Third Street houses, DG, Theta, and Sigma Chi are all in excellent locations, super close to the main campus. The ones on North Jordan (except DG) and the Extension are pretty far away, but there is a bus line (B) that serves that area.

The dorms do have parking lots. Back when I started at IU, freshmen could not park at their dorm unless they had a letter stating they had an off-campus job or some reason they needed their car. Now anyone who lives in the dorms can apply for a D sticker, which allows them to park in the parking lot of their dorm. Almost everyone else gets an E sticker, which allows you to park at the stadium and take the campus shuttle over. After 5pm and on weekends, you can park anywhere on campus as long as you have a sticker. (D or E) I parked at my apartment complex...parking was free there and it was right across the street from the campus shuttle bus stop. I still got a sticker, though, for when I drove to the library or wherever on campus in the evenings. (there were parking officers patrolling the lot of the library and places like that and they ticketed everyone without a valid sticker.)

[AXWhoah]

I used to park at one of the garages on campus (University of Arizona). It was on the south end and none of my classes were there so it was like a 15 minute walk to class. But it was the largest garage on campus (literally thousands of spots) and so it was always easy to find a spot. I paid $450 for the year. Now a parking pass for Zone 1 lots on campus are like $180 and especially on the first day of school you can literally drive around for an hour before you find a spot. I think that the money was worth the garage pass because I always found a spot right away and I never had to return to a car that felt like the inside of an oven...from the intense AZ sun.

[Measi]

Originally posted by SiKeS

• Where do you park?
• How far away is it?
• How much do you pay for parking?
• Is parking an issue at your school?

-Matt

In Boston, you pray for a parking space. And then you drive around and pray some more.

Most students don't bring cars simply because it's not worth the hassle. By the time you find a parking space, you could have walked or taken public transportation to the place you were intending to go.

Prices are expensive. Overnight parking stickers are $1,000 per year on campus lots. But that's a bargain compared to the city-at-large. Boston parking spots get SOLD individually for over $100,000! Often included at that price with a condo or house.

~ Mel

[Measi]

Originally posted by KSigkid
Parking was always a problem at Boston U., particularly when the school started putting up more buildings and taking away parking lots. There's only so much room to expand in Boston.

Senior year, parking wasn't guaranteed. YOu could pay for a spot, that didn't mean you'd get one. Not many students drove, but still it was a hassle for those that did.

Ah, a fellow BU grad.

And yeah, this sums it up, along with what I just posted.