Claudia Mickle

You've probably experienced the frustration. You arrive on campus and try to make it to class on time, but you can't find any place to park. Claudia Mickle has more in this Bobcat Update.

To park on campus, you have to pay a registration fee. But registering your car offers no assurance that you can find parking once you get here. Some students grow frustrated looking for spaces in the student parking lots, so they go to the L-B-J parking garage instead. But L-B-J is officially a visitor's garage, which means you have to pay even more to park. Texas State Junior Paul Valle says he doesn't think it's fair that he has to pay for a parking sticker but is not guaranteed a spot.

Sound Bite: "I park here because really there isn't anywhere else to park…"

The first hour of parking at the L-B-J garage costs two dollars and caps off at ten dollars per day. This can cost a student attending two days of classes a week at least eighty dollars per month.
The garage has peak hours from 11 to 3 Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The capacity of the garage is 500 spots, and once it's full the only way to gain entrance is if another leaves. Texas State Accounting Major Chris Johnson says he has experienced being late when the garage was full.

Sound Bite: "I was late to class about 40 mins…"

There are commuter parking lots for students who don't mind using the bus system, but that can be risky because the trams are often full. For Bobcat Update I'm Claudia Mickle.