MSU Parking Services

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Campus is a disaster right now thanks to these people... Oversold Commuter permits... More Faculty Staff Parking than there is Faculty Staff...Just because you have Commuter Sticker, doesn’t mean you can park in commuter parking... you have a specific Commuter designation (North,South,East,West) and you have to park in that designation or get a ticket....Shuttle’s running behind schedule...

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

I know of only one man who can clean up this mess...

 

[J-Dawg]

Campus is a disaster right now thanks to these people... Oversold Commuter permits... More Faculty Staff Parking than there is Faculty Staff...Just because you have Commuter Sticker, doesn’t mean you can park in commuter parking... you have a specific Commuter designation (North,South,East,West) and you have to park in that designation or get a ticket....Shuttle’s running behind schedule...

These were all the same problems with parking when I was there 10-12 years ago.

 

[msubrave]

I never had a problem finding a place to park my bike at the front door 10 years ago......

 

[horshack.sixpack]

Campus is a disaster right now thanks to these people... Oversold Commuter permits... More Faculty Staff Parking than there is Faculty Staff...Just because you have Commuter Sticker, doesn’t mean you can park in commuter parking... you have a specific Commuter designation (North,South,East,West) and you have to park in that designation or get a ticket....Shuttle’s running behind schedule...

Well, back in my day commuters could park in any of the commuter lots and there were still no places and plenty of empty faculty spots. If it rained while you were in class, you might get stuck in the mud in the parking lot, but that's a different issue...

 

[Clarence Boddicker]

Parking has always sucked.

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

I know of only one man who can clean up this mess...

Donald Trump! Build the Wall!

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

When I was in School (09-13) my sticker was was for the big lot by McCarthy and Doorman. I learned pretty quickly to get 8 am classes because by 9 there was a decent chance there would be nowhere to park. We had the lot over by the tennis courts too and I think it's gone now.

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

No, the Ticket Nazi is clearly the man for this job...

 

[Clarence Boddicker]

I never had a problem finding a place to park my bike at the front door 10 years ago......

There are so many things I would have done differently if I could go back to college. This would be one of them, I'd ride a bike everywhere. I'd probably live on campus at least 2-3 years.

On a side addition, if I had parents who'd had any money, I'd have convinced them to buy something very close to campus and rent it, and tried to house hack it.

 

[johnson86-1]

Campus is a disaster right now thanks to these people... Oversold Commuter permits... More Faculty Staff Parking than there is Faculty Staff...Just because you have Commuter Sticker, doesn’t mean you can park in commuter parking... you have a specific Commuter designation (North,South,East,West) and you have to park in that designation or get a ticket....Shuttle’s running behind schedule...

They have always "oversold" commuter permits. I'm not even sure if they capped them when I was there. They just assumed everybody wouldn't be there at the same time and/or that everybody deserved an option to park on campus and the ones that can't find a parking spot are SOL.

 

[WrapItDog]

I never had a problem finding a place to park my bike at the front door 10 years ago......

My bike had a Honda motor and I parked it by the back door of McCool hall. I didn't have a parking permit and never got a ticket. Or maybe I did. Where would a cop put a parking ticket on a motorcycle?

 

[The Maroon Pug]

Create more bike lanes to popular apartment complexes in town will help fix this problem.

 

[mstatefan91]

A lot of these decisions don't come from parking services.. they are charged with enforcing them

 

[FQDawg]

Where are you seeing these empty faculty/staff parking areas? Because the two places I usually park on campus are always packed to the gills and have people driving slowly through them hoping someone leaves.

And this is a legit question, by the way.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

yeah, that doesn't sound any different from 10 years ago for sure. I remember being in computer west and having a 9 am class and having to park almost out to the intramural fields.

 

[dogwhisperer]

Gotta love the yearly "Parking on campus sucks" thread. Give it about 3 weeks and suddenly things get much better for parking. Always do.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

Buy a nice house in Ackerman. Commute into Starkville everyday. Park at The Lodge and pay them $120 per month for parking. Walk to campus from there, rain or shine. Now you are living like everyone who works in a major city and can ***** about parking.

 

[Bucksnort_Dawg]

I know of only one man who can clean up this mess...

Jackie Sherill

 

[RocketDawg]

Back in the dark ages, most everybody lived on campus for all 4 or 5 years. We parked our cars in the dorm lot and generally never moved them except on the weekends. We walked to all classes, and were never late. Of course, the student population was about half then what it is now.

Can you imagine how it is at Alabama, where the student enrollment has doubled in the last 15 years?

 

[The Peeper]

There have been parking problems on campus for almost 40 years since I was there. I had a bike while in school, its definitely the way to get around campus. In town now they require a helmet now but not on campus.

Campus Bookmart lets anyone park free in the big gravel lot behind their store on Lee Blvd., park there and walk. I've seen lots of people pull in there too and take a bike off their vehicle rack or out of the back of a pickup truck to ride the rest of the way. The lot across the street from Bookmart is also free, its next to the old BSU Bldg.

The buses are free, take them. They run past all the major apartment areas, frats/sorority houses, through downtown, through the Wal Mart parking lot, even out toward the hospital.

Quit being a Princess and expect a front door parking spot, it ain't gonna happen....