FIU continues to improve its parking situation
- Jan 17, 2017
- 2 min read
Being a commuter school, FIU brings in a lot of traffic, and parking is often considered a nightmare, especially during the first few weeks of classes.
This opinion article was originally featured in PantherNOW and discusses FIU's improvement on providing parking for students.
Check out the article’s excerpt below and click the link if you want to read the full story!
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Maytinee Kramer/Assistant Opinion Director
Being a commuter school, FIU brings in a lot of traffic, and parking is often considered a nightmare, especially during the first few weeks of classes. As the university continues to grow in size and number, it has taken the necessary measures to ensure that its faculty, staff and students have decent and plentiful parking spaces.
A few years back, FIU did not have the many garages, virtual parking decals, apps and the garage count signs it has today. During my freshman year, a professor actually advised my class to arrive early in the morning, just to ensure a good parking spot. From that and through experience, I learned that you had to arrive early on campus if you wanted lots of good parking spaces to choose from.
Another issue was that the university had more parking lots than parking garages. Parking lots expand outward, therefore limiting the number of spaces available. Parking garages however, expand upward and stack the car lots, therefore ensuring hundreds of spaces for commuters.
Hunting for that coveted parking spot has been made easier during the recent years with the addition of the new parking garage PG6 and the garage counters all across campus. The counters are the biggest improvement as they help keep track of cars entering and exiting garages, and automatically update drivers on how many staff, student and administrative spaces are available in each garage.
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