University of Houston Parking Fiasco ~ Its CRAZY!

[Arkans05]

Haha. I remember having to wake up at 4AM to get to campus around 7AM from Cypress at what was Lot 1A with plenty of spots to spare. My experience, just get to campus early and make a day out of it cause the ride back at 5PM is just a big a nightmare.

[Rudeinfw]

Why not get a parking pass for either of the two garages nearby?

[louistov]

Get garage parking then, not enough people take advantage of it and instead go the cheap route and get what they pay for.

[BaLLa4LiFe34]

Get the garage parking!!! you'll save hours and hours of looking for a parking spot elsewhere.

[JohnTheBison7]

that's really cute Will. Also, there's always parking before 8AM. get to campus early and study or go take a nap. problem solved. if you can't get here that early. that sucks.

[Matt1196]

does anyone else hate that feeling when you think you see a spot but it turns out that a really small car is just pulled all the way forward?

[saphilip1]

i want a nice video camera just so i can record pointless but entertaining videos like this

[akhoa2k]

uniquely Houston... vast land but not enough parking spots (look around UH to see how much free space we have)...

Btw, buy a garage parking instead then. Always have parking spots available!

[dewey001100]

haha great vid.

[seeahorsee]

Yeah. Take the bus. Or bike. Houston may not have great bike lanes, but the more cyclists there are, the more incentive they have to make them.

I don't feel sorry for students who can't find parking. Frankly, driving is a luxury with $4 gas, and the complaints surrounding this have an easy solution - find other means of transportation. Bus, bike, walk like every other student in the country. These students have a Lexus and a brand-new Mustang. Boo-hoo, poor little rich kid.

[slyferret]

@seeahorsee: I live in Conroe - over 40 miles from UH (and no, I can't afford to move). I literally have no choice but to drive. I can leave at 7:30am (for a 10:30 class) and still not find parking. By lunchtime even ERP and the garages are full - there's literally NOWHERE to park, even if you're willing to take a shuttle/walk a mile in 100+ heat. That is just completely ridiculous. I have to cough up $150/semester for a parking permit and then leave 2+ hours early to be able to use it.

[seeahorsee]

@slyferret You "literally" have no choice but to drive? Have you heard of the Metro Park and Ride, which we all pay for with tax money? If you even tried, you could park at the one in Spring and ride worry-free, brother. But you'd rather pay for the luxury (yes, the luxury) of driving rather than saving money. Yeah, OK. "Literally have no choice" seems more like, "don't care to research options because I love my car and the victim mentality."

[slyferret]

@seeahorsee Making assumptions about others just makes you look like a pr*ck. I took advantage of a city park and ride for years in Austin to get to school. There are several reasons the bus is no longer an option for me, the biggest being that the last stops downtown are around 6:30; I would never make it.

I never claimed having a car was not a luxury. I just pointed out that public transport is not an option for everyone. The university should not sell 3x more permits than there are spaces.

[seeahorsee]

@slyferret That is complete BS and you know it. I have a friend who lives in Willis and is a nurse in the medical center who takes advantage of the Park and Ride system up to 2am. But yeah, let's resort to name-calling and excuse-making. It's not like UH has any other choice but to sell extra parking passes when the majority of its students drive. What are they supposed to do, just cap it? 2/3 of the school wouldn't get parking passes if they did it by the numbers.

[918dnubiroM]

@seeahorsee

The last inbound 217 - Cypress P&R bus, the one closest to me, leaves from Cypress at 7:50 am. There is no midday service. The last outbound bus back out to Cypress leaves its final downtown stop at 7:15 pm. Not all Park and Rides have midday and late evening service.

[seeahorsee]

@slyferret And why do we prefer to drive? Peel the onion. Houston is an oil town, and it's in the oil companies' best interest to keep Texans driving no matter what the cost. Oil interests affect everything in Houston, right down to the city planning (i.e. no bike lanes). But yeah, let's all just keep driving, even if it gets prohibitively expensive - who cares if there are transportation alternatives? Who cares about ecological responsibility? Get out of that Texas mentality, friend.

[huhuhu555]

@seeahorsee I hope you realize most of the student population at UH are commuters. It's not exactly so easy to "walk or bike" from your house when its like 30 miles away. And yeah, lets take the public bus which doesn't stop at half the places you need it to, and is a great place to get robbed or raped. Who cares, what cars the own.. the problem is clearly the parking at UH

[MrJeffbbc]

parking is a bitch!

[jeepskater433]

We appreciate the comments, we need more people to watch the video

[Eyemfaster]

this is REALLY what its like every morning when I get on campus lol, awesome job!

[vyviann86]

well i park at robertson and wait at the bus stop and ask the students where they park and i follow them there OR i just stay in one lane and wait for a student to get to the car.

[alexqxq1]

haha so bad ass!

[chasing3suns]

brilliant. well conceived and executed. hope you got an A for this.

[xtecnro]

wow, LOL . . . never thought'd I say this but . . .

"Campus Tow Trucks FTW."

[ShooshZERO]

Sick Vid again!!!