Parking Permits

[Lissarae06]

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So they raised the price of campus parking permits at Ok-State (again). It got me wondering how much people paid at other schools. What school do you go to and how much do you pay for campus parking?

 

[skittles12]

Commuter students at UTK pay $182 for a permit, which is an increase of $20 this year. The extra money is supposedly going to build new parking garages (in 2014 I think). I think they sell about 2 permits per spot, which means you are in no way guaranteed a parking spot. Parking tickets are $24-32. I usually plan on getting 2-3 of those a year... 🙁

 

[Lissarae06]

Commuter students at UTK pay $182 for a permit, which is an increase of $20 this year. The extra money is supposedly going to build new parking garages (in 2014 I think). I think they sell about 2 permits per spot, which means you are in no way guaranteed a parking spot. Parking tickets are $24-32. I usually plan on getting 2-3 of those a year... 🙁

Oh geez. I feel a little better now. Ours went up $28 but they are still a lot better than $182! This year's permit costs us $98

 

[primatevetjess]

I hate you all. UC Davis, $480 for the year. Yup, almost $500 for 12 months.

 

[cowgirla]

I hate you all. UC Davis, $480 for the year. Yup, almost $500 for 12 months.

Yowch!

 

[twelvetigers]

See Liss, I told you we still had it pretty good!

 

[bunnity]

Yeah. Try $1800 a year. Or $2300 if you want to include overnights!

Needless to say, people walk or take public transit.

 

[Lissarae06]

See Liss, I told you we still had it pretty good!

I believed you! I just wanted to see how good we had it.

 

[wildcatj]

Yeah. Try $1800 a year. Or $2300 if you want to include overnights!

Needless to say, people walk or take public transit.

Jesus Fing christ.

 

[primatevetjess]

Yeah. Try $1800 a year. Or $2300 if you want to include overnights!

Needless to say, people walk or take public transit.

😱

That's insane and seems completely unnecessary. Wow.

 

[twelvetigers]

I believed you! I just wanted to see how good we had it.

Apparently pretty good. Of course, we are also a bit lucky - parking will fill up for us at first but as people stop coming to class every day it will get to where there is always a spot open in the lot by the school. However, when I did green parking in undergrad, I would have to drive around until I caught someone leaving and then like, race four other cars to get the spot. Needless to say, there was lots of yelling.

 

[fromthebox]

I hate you all. UC Davis, $480 for the year. Yup, almost $500 for 12 months.

Same for UCSB $450 a year and tickets are $45 a pop. I figured if I got less than 10 tix a year I was better off with tickets 🙄

 

[wildcatj]

Apparently pretty good. Of course, we are also a bit lucky - parking will fill up for us at first but as people stop coming to class every day it will get to where there is always a spot open in the lot by the school. However, when I did green parking in undergrad, I would have to drive around until I caught someone leaving and then like, race four other cars to get the spot. Needless to say, there was lots of yelling.

Hah, sounds like my undergrad. I finally have conceded to parking in a far away lot and taking the shuttle.

 

[primatevetjess]

Same for UCSB $450 a year and tickets are $45 a pop. I figured if I got less than 10 tix a year I was better off with tickets 🙄

Yeah, our parking tickets are also $45. I agree about being better off with tickets if you don't get that many, but our parking enforcement is full of nazis here. Without a permit, you will literally get a parking ticket every single day. Last summer I couldn't make it over to buy a new permit before they closed the first two days after my previous permit expired, and I got a parking ticket both days. 😡

 

[Lissarae06]

Apparently pretty good. Of course, we are also a bit lucky - parking will fill up for us at first but as people stop coming to class every day it will get to where there is always a spot open in the lot by the school. However, when I did green parking in undergrad, I would have to drive around until I caught someone leaving and then like, race four other cars to get the spot. Needless to say, there was lots of yelling.

Third years also get their special little lot

 

[twelvetigers]

Third years also get their special little lot

"special" is right.

Harharhar.

 

[Jamr0ckin]

Yeah. Try $1800 a year. Or $2300 if you want to include overnights!

Needless to say, people walk or take public transit.

That's just plain wrong.

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[fromthebox]

Yeah, our parking tickets are also $45. I agree about being better off with tickets if you don't get that many, but our parking enforcement is full of nazis here. Without a permit, you will literally get a parking ticket every single day. Last summer I couldn't make it over to buy a new permit before they closed the first two days after my previous permit expired, and I got a parking ticket both days. 😡

Yeah I got lucky in that I could ride my bike in most days, and I knew where enforcement was common. So I parked on campus 1-3x a week, got maybe 4 tix a year.

 

[kanderson615]

Reading this is one of the few times I'm actually happy about not having a car and commuting with my boyfriend As inconvenient as it is, at least we'll save on gas and a parking permit!

 

[Camelidcrazy]

Definitely walk 2.5mi both ways to campus instead of buying a pass. It's 250-600$ here depending on the pass you want. And Pullman is totally the Podunk in the middle of absolutely nowhere. I have to break down and buy one fourth year, but for now- bus and walking for me!

600$ is insane.

 

[twelvetigers]

Reading this is one of the few times I'm actually happy about not having a car and commuting with my boyfriend As inconvenient as it is, at least we'll save on gas and a parking permit!

You need to change your location ma'am, lest anyone think you are sitting inside hiding from the 111 degree heat right now.

(like me)

 

[Camelidcrazy]

Yeah. Try $1800 a year. Or $2300 if you want to include overnights!

Needless to say, people walk or take public transit.

Yowza!! You win. 1800$ is the craziest thing I've ever heard. I can't believe there aren't riots and protests! These are passes for kids in college!

 

[hai1983]

Yeah. Try $1800 a year. Or $2300 if you want to include overnights!

Needless to say, people walk or take public transit.

Can you even get passes through Penn? I was under the impression people leased spots in University City.

 

[Bearby]

UF is $175 for the year I think. They don't stop selling at any point, so it's just a permit to hunt. I will no longer complain about the cost, though.

 

[Trilt]

300ish for NC State, but there's free fairgrounds parking just across the street from the deck that a lot of people use. There's way more spots than cars for the spots, so you're guaranteed a spot if you have a permit.

I'm close enough to walk/bike. 😀

 

[kakurubird]

Man, this makes me 🙁.

Definitely a cost I hadn't considered yet.

And that's scary that some lots don't even have enough spots!

Undergrad, I payed $50 a year for the two years I lived on-campus and nothing when I was living off-campus. So, comes out to $100 total for four years of parking (including a summer spent on-campus).
Glorious.

 

[orcagirl]

300ish for NC State, but there's free fairgrounds parking just across the street from the deck that a lot of people use. There's way more spots than cars for the spots, so you're guaranteed a spot if you have a permit.

I'm close enough to walk/bike. 😀

I'm that close to, but I went for it. It was $318 to be exact. I took a shuttle for undergrad ($75 a year). I decided what's another little bit to be able to park right next to the school.

 

[StartingoverVet]

Can you even get passes through Penn? I was under the impression people leased spots in University City.

There are spots through the university. And some of it is indoor garages which is nice.

But honestly, only a handful of people commute to Penn, and they really don't want you commuting. There are 40k students here in the middle of a city. This is not a commuter college.

There is plenty of mass transit.

ANd you can't compare parking prices in Oklahoma to the 5th largest city in the country. It just isn't comparable.

But, my wife pays $26/year for parking at Princeton.

 

[krist]

I think mizzou is $140 for the year (or maybe semester?)...I really need to order that asap.

Also, all of your avatar's are super confusing for those of you playing in the SDN WW game!!

 

[NStarz]

Ohio's parking permit is $264/year. I thought that was a lot (parking on my UG campus was free. Ah, those were the days...)

 

[david594]

Ohio's parking permit is $264/year. I thought that was a lot (parking on my UG campus was free. Ah, those were the days...)

Just wait until you show up 5 minutes late for class some day and find there are no spots left... Leaving for lunch is also equally risky during the year.

 

[Tiger369]

But, my wife pays $26/year for parking at Princeton.

That's not bad at all

So far the parking at my school is free. But, we're more of a commuter school so maybe that's why.

 

[LetItSnow]

I'm so jealous of most of you!!!

Here we have a few parking lots; they run $177/semester. We have one parking ramp. It runs $346/semester. And it's done by lottery because there's not enough spots to go around - so it's possible you could end up with nothing and have to pay daily rates or park off campus on a street (for free, at least) and walk onto campus.

Last year, you could park in the ramp and as long as you left after 9pm (or 10pm or something); there was nobody to collect the money so they just left the gate up ... so no charge. That worked great first semester when I studied at school until late. Second semester I switched to studying off campus ... no love on the parking. And then they went ahead and put in automated pay stations so now you can't duck it just by staying late.

Fortunately we have decent bus service, but.... parking is expensive here.

 

[Trematode]

My undergrad had it quite lucky compared to you guys. It was $100-something for the year and $25 per parking ticket.

I used to get really sick and tired of listening to the whining: "It's too expensive." "Parking tickets are too expensive!" "There are never any parking spaces."

I do not drive, so the solution seemed simple for me. After hearing a rant from the students union on facebook, I told everyone to stop their whining. If you do not like the price or the fact that you can't get a parking space, CARPOOL or TAKE THE BUS. People got all butt-hurt. The students union actually thought it was a great idea and had a little poll on how to improve the parking situation. Still, most students demanded more/cheaper parking over carpooling and a better bus system (which are more environmentally friendly...). Our bus system was crap, so it really struck a nerve when students with cars, money, jobs and who still lived with their parents droned on and on more-so than us poorer, bus-dwelling folk.

Now that I think about it, parking passes are cheaper than bus passes. And people still complained :/

 

[dyachei]

I think the worst part about Tennessee was that if you were in clinics, you weren't guaranteed a spot, either. Undergrads would park behind the clinic and take up valuable spots and take the bus into the center of campus. So if you were allowed to come in after 8 for a change, you had to park where the new large animal stuff is now, go upstairs and get a temp permit from the vet school, and go put it in the car before you could get to work in the clinics. Meanwhile, the faculty lot right next door always had spaces. So frustrating

 

[nuevaburra]

Wisconsin is $785 for outdoor spots, IF you can even get a permit in the first place. Tickets are $40. 🙁 They don't like people driving.

 

[Bill59]

The power of monopoly. At a lot of universities, parking is one of the top 2 or 3 departments in terms of profit. In schools without big time football or basketball it's often the top.

 

[zanydogz]

At TAMU, its $275 per year. First years are guaranteed the best lot (yay!) so I'm right next to the vet school. Otherwise, you just have to order your permit super early and hope for the best. There other open lots for us aren't that far off, maybe a block or so at the most. Parking tickets are usually about $40 so its best to get a pass and use it!

What sucks is that the vet school ""highly recommends" that you get a permit since there is only one bus system in College Station and its apparently not the best, especially during the school year with 50K+ undergrad students around. So long story short I had to get one.

 

[nyanko]

there is free parking out in front of the animal science beef barn which is not TOO far from our campus, if you get there early enough.

however last quarter it seemed like we got an email every single day about cars being broken into out there. i hypothesized that it's a setup by the campus parking people to try to get vet students to buy more permits. 😱

 

[LetItSnow]

If you do not like the price or the fact that you can't get a parking space, CARPOOL or TAKE THE BUS.

That's not entirely feasible for all people in all places. We have a fairly decent bus system here in the Twin Cities, but the vet school is on the St. Paul (not Minneapolis) campus. The STP campus is quite a bit smaller and not as well served by buses.

For me to take the bus, I have limited options. I can walk from my doorstep a half mile to a bus pick-up. That bus takes me a mile to a different bus. That bus takes me downtown (Minneapolis). There I pick up another bus to the UMN-Minneapolis campus. There I take a campus connector to the STP campus to school. Total bus count: 4 plus a minor amount of walking.

To get there in time for 8am classes? Barely, barely feasible. Technically, not feasible, but I believe I can get there by about 8:05 if I leave home at 6am.

Getting home in the evening? Only doable if I cut out of class a few minutes early to catch the last bus out to my place.

And I'm not really in the sticks - I'm in one of the largest suburbs of Minneapolis.

I can shorten the trip to an express bus downtown -> bus to UMN MSP -> campus connector if I want to drive 10 minutes (and park for free) to a commuter bus area. That's more doable, but I still can't QUITE get to class on time and would have to leave slightly early from class to get home. And it still requires me to have a car rather than cut us down to a one-car family, which would be sweet financially.

*shrug*

I think people sometimes have a legitimate claim at being butt-hurt over this stuff. I ended up just driving last year, and I was ok with that and I just paid the price and shut up. But this year I think I'm going to bus and just piss off my classmates by walking in late *EVERY* day and leaving early *EVERY* day. Not much I can do about it, but when we can get bus passes for $95/semester (!!) I can't ignore that cost savings ($95/semester versus gas/insurance/maintenance on a car driving 30 minutes back 'n forth every day plus parking costs? Stupid.).

 

[LetItSnow]

The power of monopoly. At a lot of universities, parking is one of the top 2 or 3 departments in terms of profit. In schools without big time football or basketball it's often the top.

Bingo!

 

[Camelidcrazy]

Luckily Pullman is a college town so riding public transportation is free with an employee or student ID (I'm sure we pay for it in tuition or some fee)

After reading all these posts I feel much better about the state of transportation in Pullman. Cue end of whining about the issue for life 😀 I'm sure my husband and lab mates thank you.

 

[Lissarae06]

Yeah I live in a town 40 miles away from the school so taking the bus (free for students by the way but a real hassle because of changing buses, etc) isn't really an option for me. I am going to car pool with a girl that lives close to me but with the differences in our schedules, I'm not really sure how that will work out.

 

[nyanko]

Luckily Pullman is a college town so riding public transportation is free with an employee or student ID (I'm sure we pay for it in tuition or some fee)

Our bus system in Davis is run by undergrads. I'm not kidding, majority of the managers and all of the drivers are undergrad students. Undergrads (who pay the fee for ASUCD, the student government type organization) ride for free, but grad students or others affiliated with the University have to pay. It's $1 cash or we can go to the transportation & parking services on campus and get discounted passes that are actually pretty inexpensive (I think I remember paying $7 for 20 passes and I think the monthly/quarterly passes are pretty inexpensive too).

The downside to this is that during the summer/breaks/weekends the service is awful. Luckily the place I just moved to is literally right on the route for the 2 lines that go around and through the entire city (one clockwise and one counterclockwise) and run during every single type of service, even when the others aren't running - the stop is right outside my door.

 

[Camelidcrazy]

You know who I wouldn't trust to drive my bus? An undergrad who very likely has a hang-over.

 

[nyanko]

You know who I wouldn't trust to drive my bus? An undergrad who very likely has a hang-over.

actually the unitrans drivers take their jobs quite seriously and go through a ton of training and have to be licensed like any other bus driver and in the nearly 5 years i've been at ucdavis i have only seen two minor accidents involving the buses, both newish drivers who misjudged the tight turn at the bus station and lightly scraped a bus waiting to come out.

they also get to drive the sweet london double deckers that we have

 

[Camelidcrazy]

Dang, your undergrads are responsible!! I recently saw an undergrad riding his bike down campus mall at breakneck speeds wearing a woman's formal dress and a children's' football helmet with a chin strap fashioned from duct tape.... Huh.

 

[nyanko]

Dang, your undergrads are responsible!! I recently saw an undergrad riding his bike down campus mall at breakneck speeds wearing a woman's formal dress and a children's' football helmet with a chin strap fashioned from duct tape.... Huh.

oh don't take the drivers as commentary on all of them.

 

[Wildlife woman]

Wow you guys have to rough. Our parking permit is only $50. Then again there is a ton of land so that's probably why

 

[secretaryiga14]

WSU is about $500 per year for the lot right outside the vet school. Sucky thing is we have to share it with the entire CVM AND the rest of the WSU students. Good thing is we usually get close spots if we attend our 8am classes. 9am or later and we usually have to park in a more distant lot.