Friday, January 16, 2009

WVU & Parking Issues

I just don’t understand why WVU only offers one free parking lot for us students to park. It really frustrates me on football and basketball game days when the WVU officials block off over half of the coliseum lot so fans can park there. Now I don’t want to sound like I am angry that the fans park at the coliseum, I am just aggravated by the fact that if you don’t have an 8:00A.M. or 8:30A.M. class then you have a very little chance of actually getting a parking spot on game days. The worst part is that for football games they block the lots off two days before a game. Lastly, it bothers me for the people who can’t find parking spots and have to park in random spots at the coliseum and then they are given a ticket for not being in an “actual” parking space. To my knowledge, the coliseum is the only free lot for students, and I do realize the parking garage is an option, but it can be very difficult to get a spot there too. I just wish that WVU would offer another form of free parking especially on game days.

M.Hamilton

2 comments:

JG said...

It's almost as if they care less about students getting to class and more about alumni football game money... :)

P. Filmeck said...

I park at the coliseum too and it is extremely difficult to find a parking spot on gamedays. If students have to drive around for a long period of time with no hope of finding a spot, they are eventually going to get frustrated and leave, resulting in them not going to class. That should be more important to the university than how much money it can make off of the RV's that will pay a great deal of money for our parking spots.