YouChat with President Dennison: Parking

[WAKeele]

Also, with the school in Chicago you got an unlimited riding pass on all Chicago Transit Authority trains & buses with your tuition--VERY handy. I'd say close to 100% of students that didn't live in university dorms next to school used this pass.

Myself, I would take a bus on rainy/snowy/COLD days, but the bus routes in Missoula aren't that good. The closest stop, which has awful stop times, is 15 min away & in the opposite direction of campus. We need more routes & raise the parking passes $.

[WAKeele]

I'm new to UM this semester & have attended two other universities: one in a similar-sized town in TN & another in downtown Chicago. One had plenty of space for parking & one had ZERO space for parking. In Chicago you HAD to take public transportation/walk or pay ~$250+ a month a local structure. I don't have a parking pass here because I wanted to save the money & I'm also about 12 min away on bike--30 by foot. It's not fun some days in the cold & elements, but it's the right thing to do.

[TROLLY4242]

Nice work Brianne. I feel the real problem is over-issued parking permits. Sure the U wants to make as much money as possible and arranging who gets first bid on them is a problem but there must be a solution: Car garage (expensive), limiting permits (low profit, social backlash), raising prices of permits (Slander against the U for obvious reasons)

Pick your poison..