Parking
problems promote ingenuity
By Jeff Spafford
Online Forty-Niner
Contributing Writer
Parking can be a nightmare during the first several weeks on campus. Some students
might witness frantic lane changes, experience the monotonous search between
endless lanes of cars or partake in the old-fashioned cat-and-mouse game: following
a student to his or her car and getting the parking spot.
However, parking does not have to be a game of angles or stress. By knowing the
campus and utilizing the resources available, parking can become a problem of
the past.
To park on campus, students must obtain a parking permit through Parking and
Transportation Services or the cashier’s office at Brotman Hall. The permit
costs $98 for the semester, but students can purchase daily permits for $3.25.
Eight parking lots and a four-story parking structure are available for general
use on campus.
The Parking and Transportation Services suggest students try metered parking
for short trips. Metered parking is available in 10 lots and on Parkside Access
Road, Earl Warren Drive, South Campus Drive, Beach Drive and Deukmejian Way and
costs $1.75 per hour.
Students can also utilize Campus Connection, CSULB’s shuttle service, as
an efficient way to get to class. Frequent shuttle stops are along the route
on Earl Warren Drive, Beach Drive, West Campus Drive and across East Campus.
Parking services offer several other alternatives to alleviate parking congestions.
Students who carpool with other students are eligible for carpool permits.
According to Parking and Transportation services, obtaining a carpool permit
is simple. Students must have a valid spring semester parking permit. Then, students
and their carpool party can go to Parking and Transportation Services, fill out
a form and show their student I.D. cards to obtain a carpool permit. Currently,
CSULB has two carpool lots – one in front of Brotman Hall and one in Lot
11.
For those who want to avoid parking on campus altogether, students can park off
campus at Veteran’s Stadium near Long Beach City College’s campus
on Lakewood Boulevard and East Carson Street according to Parking and Transportation
Services. An off- campus shuttle will take students from the stadium onto campus.
CSULB has sectioned off part of Lot 11, on east campus along Palo Verde Avenue,
to accommodate construction for a new parking structure. In a memo from the Division
of Administration and Finance, Vice President William H. Griffith said roughly
1,000 spots are temporarily unavailable. However, when the structure is completed
it will increase parking capacity by 1,287 parking spaces.
For more information, students can go on the parking and transportation Web site
at www.csulb.edu/parking or call (562) 985-4146.
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