Megan Carthel

Texas State's student population may be on the rise, but parking spaces aren't--and some students aren't happy about it. Megan Carthel has more on the story.

Purple, red, silver, green with envy--for a parking spot, that is. A student has to search to find one.
[SB Brittney] "It takes me at least 30 minutes to find a parking spot on campus, if I even do."
Others don't search at all.
[SB Cory] "Parking sucks. I just ride the bus."
From 2012 to 2013 the first-time freshmen enrollment population rose by nearly one thousand students. 
[SB Brittney] "There's all these incoming freshmen, and they are going to have cars and there's not going to be enough room."
Interim Director of Transportation Services at Texas State, Nancy Nusbaum, says because more perimeter parking permits have been sold this year than residential permits, purple and all permit lots fill up faster.  She said this fall nearly 500 residential parking spots were unused. The Parking Services website says a permit does not guarantee a parking spot, and lack of space does not justify parking illegally. For Bobcat Update, I'm Megan Carthel.